Motivational Quotes

Politics

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about 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.

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

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

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

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

Plato

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

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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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

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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

Dane, Frank

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

Rogers, Will

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Ephron, Nora

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Rogers, Will

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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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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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 of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.