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

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

Alfred E. Newman

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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

Will, George F.

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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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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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Rogers, Will

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

Aristotle

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Russell, Dora

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston