Motivational Quotes

Politics

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Politics

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

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Seneca

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

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

Eban, Abba

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Aristotle

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

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

Fredrich

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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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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Taft, William Howard

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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

Heine, Heinrich

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Margaret Cho

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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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

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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