Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Lowman, Hariold

Best Quotes about Politics

Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Tweed, Boss

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

Roche, John P.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hattersley, Roy

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

Plato

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Dane, Frank

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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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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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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 politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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.

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.