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

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Will, George F.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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 they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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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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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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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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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Bush, George

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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

Heine, Heinrich

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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

Major, John