Motivational Quotes

Politics

Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

- Kennedy Jr., John F.

Best Quotes about Politics

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Tweed, Boss

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

Albert Einstein

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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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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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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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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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Rogers, Will

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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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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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Kennedy Jr., John F.

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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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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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 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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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 House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will