Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

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

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.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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

Arbuthnot, John

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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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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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rogers, Will

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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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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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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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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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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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

Pell, Claiborne

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Seneca

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

Platen

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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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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