Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Roche, John P.

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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

Rogers, Will

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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