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

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

Baudrillard, Jean

It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Rogers, Will

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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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 is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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.

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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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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

Fischer, John

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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy