Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Lowman, Hariold

Best Quotes about Politics

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Swift, Jonathan

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

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

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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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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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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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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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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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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Grant, Amy

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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

Broun, Heywood

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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

Eban, Abba

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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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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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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Herriot, Edouard

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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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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Platen

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold