Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Naito, Fern

Best Quotes about Politics

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Dane, Frank

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

Will, George F.

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Horace

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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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Seneca

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

Orwell, George

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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.

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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