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

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

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

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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

Rogers, Will

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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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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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

Hattersley, Roy

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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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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Herriot, Edouard

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Dane, Frank

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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

Bush, George

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

32.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Fredrich

34.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Cameron, W. J.

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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

Deighton, Len

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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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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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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.