Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Politics

Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Lowman, Hariold

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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.

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

Welles, Orson

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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

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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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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Bagehot, Walter

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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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

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Dane, Frank

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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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

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

Seneca

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Noonan, Peggy