Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Roche, John P.

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

Russell, Dora

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

Bryan, William Jennings

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Orwell, George

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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 about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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.

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Platen

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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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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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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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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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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.