Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Kennedy, Joseph

Best Quotes about Politics

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Rogers, Will

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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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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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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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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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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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Hattersley, Roy

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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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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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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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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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Benn, Tony

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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 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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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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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 will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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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