Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cary, Joyce

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.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Taft, William Howard

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

10.

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

11.

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

16.

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

Deighton, Len

17.

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

Major, John

18.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

19.

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

20.

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

21.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

22.

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.

23.

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

24.

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

Herriot, Edouard

25.

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

27.

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

28.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

29.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

30.

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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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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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

33.

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

34.

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

35.

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

Bacon, Francis

36.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

37.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

Greeley, Horace

39.

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

40.

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

42.

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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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

44.

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

45.

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

46.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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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

48.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

49.

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

50.

Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank