Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Platen

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

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

Rostand, Jean

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Halifax, Edward F.

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

10.

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

11.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

12.

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

13.

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

14.

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

15.

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

Roche, John P.

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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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

22.

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

23.

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

24.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

25.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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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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

30.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

33.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

34.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

36.

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

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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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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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

41.

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

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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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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

46.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

47.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.