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

Pepper, Claude D.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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

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

Mccarthy, Mary

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

11.

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Rogers, Will

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Bush, George

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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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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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

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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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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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Certeau, Michel De

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hattersley, Roy

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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