Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Naito, Fern

Best Quotes about Politics

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Dane, Frank

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

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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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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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Kissinger, Henry

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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

Roche, John P.

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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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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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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 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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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.

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Platen

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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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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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

Rogers, Will

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Orwell, George

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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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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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