Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Lowman, Hariold

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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

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

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Mark B. Cohen

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

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Cooper, James F.

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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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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 apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Ephron, Nora

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Churchill, Winston

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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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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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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