Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Platen

Best Quotes about Politics

Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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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.

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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

Naito, Fern

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Pell, Claiborne

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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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.