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

Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Fischer, John

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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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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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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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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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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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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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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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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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

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse