Motivational Quotes

Politics

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Major, John

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

Bagehot, Walter

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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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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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

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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

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

Bush, George

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi