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

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Platen

Kennedy Jr., John F.

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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

Byrne, Robert

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

Field, Franklin

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Roche, John P.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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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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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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

Bush, George

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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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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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.

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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

Heine, Heinrich