Motivational Quotes

Politics

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

- Quayle, Dan

Best Quotes about Politics

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

11.

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

12.

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

Rogers, Will

13.

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

18.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

22.

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

24.

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

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

Brown, Jerry

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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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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

30.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

31.

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.

32.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

33.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

34.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

35.

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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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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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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.

49.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth