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

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Broun, Heywood

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

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

Rogers, Will

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Larry Hardiman

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Cameron, W. J.

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Noonan, Peggy

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Rogers, Will

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Major, John

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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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 apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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 the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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

Will, George F.