Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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.

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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

Benn, Tony

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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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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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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Fredrich

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

Rogers, Will

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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 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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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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

Brogan, Denis E.

34.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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