Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

- R. A. Butler

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Taft, William Howard

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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

Roche, John P.

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

Marquis, Don

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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

Reagan, Ronald

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Hattersley, Roy

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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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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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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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Rostand, Jean

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan