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 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.

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.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

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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 takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Barres

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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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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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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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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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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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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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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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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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Aristotle

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.