Motivational Quotes

Politics

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Cameron, W. J.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Kocher, Gerhard

10.

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

11.

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

12.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

13.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

14.

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

Rogers, Will

15.

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.

16.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

17.

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

Rogers, Will

18.

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

19.

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

20.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

21.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

26.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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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 has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

29.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

30.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

31.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

32.

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

33.

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

Rogers, Will

34.

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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 only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

44.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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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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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

49.

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

Platen

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay