Motivational Quotes

Politics

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

- Noonan, Peggy

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Russell, Dora

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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

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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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Charles De Gaulle

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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

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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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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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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

Will, George F.

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Broun, Heywood

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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

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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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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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Alfred E. Newman

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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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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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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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.