Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Dane, Frank

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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

Taft, William Howard

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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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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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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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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 is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Marquis, Don

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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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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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

33.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Kempton, Murray

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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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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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

Roche, John P.

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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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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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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

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen