Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Politics

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

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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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 diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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

Major, John

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Reagan, Ronald

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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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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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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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

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Field, Franklin

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

Roche, John P.

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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