Motivational Quotes

Politics

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

- Johnson, Pamela Hansford

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

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

Horace

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

10.

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

11.

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

14.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

15.

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

16.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

17.

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

Major, John

18.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

19.

When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

20.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

21.

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

Kissinger, Henry

22.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. 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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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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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

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

28.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

29.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

30.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

32.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

33.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

34.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

35.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

40.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

41.

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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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.

43.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Dane, Frank

45.

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

46.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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

Noonan, Peggy

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.