Motivational Quotes

Politics

Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

- Montalbano, Benjamin J.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Deighton, Len

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

Cameron, W. J.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Brogan, Denis E.

12.

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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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

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

Orwell, George

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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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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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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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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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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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

Cary, Joyce

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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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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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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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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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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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