Motivational Quotes

Politics

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Goldwater, Barry

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

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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

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

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

Taft, William Howard

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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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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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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

Seneca

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

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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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Pell, Claiborne

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon