Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Politics

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

Hattersley, Roy

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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

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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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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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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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

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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 essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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

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

Rogers, Will

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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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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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.