Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Nunn, Gregory

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Certeau, Michel De

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

10.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

11.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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

Platen

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

18.

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

Ambrose Bierce

19.

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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

Roche, John P.

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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.

27.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

30.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Paul Valery

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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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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Alfred E. Newman

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

Benn, Tony

45.

Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus