Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Noonan, Peggy

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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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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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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

Bacon, Francis

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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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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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

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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