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

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Cary, Joyce

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Taft, William Howard

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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

Cameron, W. J.

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Charles De Gaulle

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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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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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Bagehot, Walter

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Benn, Tony

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Major, 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

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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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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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Lowman, Hariold

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill