Motivational Quotes

Politics

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Politics

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

11.

It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

19.

We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

23.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

34.

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

43.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

47.

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius