Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Politics

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Field, Franklin

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

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

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

18.

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

Ephron, Nora

19.

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

Paul Valery

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Fredrich

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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 lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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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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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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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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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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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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

Noonan, Peggy

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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