Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Parkinson, Cecil

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

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.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Bagehot, Walter

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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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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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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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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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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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Naito, Fern

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

Nathan, George Jean

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Taft, William Howard

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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