Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Nunn, Gregory

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Bryan, William Jennings

Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Brown, Jerry

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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

Bacon, Francis

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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 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

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

Platen

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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

Rostand, Jean

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Roche, John P.

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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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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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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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

Benn, Tony

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Aristotle