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 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

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Rogers, Will

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

Aristotle

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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

Pell, Claiborne

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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