Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Nunn, Gregory

Best Quotes about Politics

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bush, George

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

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

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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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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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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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

Pell, Claiborne

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dane, Frank

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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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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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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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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.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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 problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII