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

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas