Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Kirkpatrick, Jeane

Best Quotes about Politics

The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Hattersley, Roy

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

Fischer, John

15.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

18.

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

19.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

20.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

21.

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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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Hubbard, Kin

24.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

25.

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

26.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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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

33.

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 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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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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

38.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Cary, Joyce

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

42.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

46.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle