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

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

Nunn, Gregory

The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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.

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

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

Bush, George

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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 a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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

Field, Franklin

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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 most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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

Roche, John P.

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Taft, William Howard

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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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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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy