Motivational Quotes

Politics

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Politics

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Cary, Joyce

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Alfred E. Newman

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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

Lowman, Hariold

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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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 are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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

Grant, Amy

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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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

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Brown, Jerry

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.