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

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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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 our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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 are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Naito, Fern

30.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Horace

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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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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho