Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Certeau, Michel De

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

Marquis, Don

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

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

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

Roche, John P.

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

Hubbard, Kin

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Naito, Fern

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Cannon, Joseph

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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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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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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

Rogers, Will

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Pell, Claiborne

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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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 is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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

Rogers, Will

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.