Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Mark B. Cohen

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Pepper, Claude D.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Dane, Frank

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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 in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

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

Margaret Cho

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Will, George F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh