Motivational Quotes

Politics

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Fredrich

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Hattersley, Roy

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

10.

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 in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

12.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

14.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

15.

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

Dane, Frank

16.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

17.

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

Deighton, Len

18.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

19.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

22.

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

23.

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gaulle, Charles De

27.

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

28.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

41.

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

Bagehot, Walter

42.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

44.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Dane, Frank

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Politics is a blood sport.