Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Naito, Fern

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dane, Frank

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

Barres

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Churchill, Winston

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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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

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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

Deighton, Len

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Brown, Jerry

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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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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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

Bush, George

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Benn, Tony

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