Motivational Quotes

Politics

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Charles De Gaulle

The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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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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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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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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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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

32.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Roche, John P.

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

Broun, Heywood

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

Welles, Orson

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Orwell, George

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

Plato

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan