Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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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

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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bagehot, Walter

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Broun, Heywood

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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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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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Benn, Tony

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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

Major, John

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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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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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy