Motivational Quotes

Politics

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

- Larry Hardiman

Best Quotes about Politics

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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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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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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.

27.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Fredrich

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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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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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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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

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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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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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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.

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose