Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

- Quinton, John

Best Quotes about Politics

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Alfred E. Newman

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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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 problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Hattersley, Roy

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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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.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Margaret Cho

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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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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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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.