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 essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Certeau, Michel De

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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

Macmillan, Harold

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Platen

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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

Pell, Claiborne

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Orwell, George

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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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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Hattersley, Roy

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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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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

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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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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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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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

Bush, George

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Huxley, Aldous