Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

- Margaret Cho

Best Quotes about Politics

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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

Will, George F.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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 Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Rogers, Will

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

25.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

42.

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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.