Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Pell, Claiborne

Best Quotes about Politics

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Roche, John P.

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Naito, Fern

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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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.

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

Certeau, Michel De

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

Rostand, Jean

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Greeley, Horace

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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 organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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

Benn, Tony

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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.

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII