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

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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

Marquis, Don

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Rostand, Jean

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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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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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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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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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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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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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Cooper, James F.

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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

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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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 only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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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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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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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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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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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