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

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Benn, Tony

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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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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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

Dane, Frank

20.

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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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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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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

Nathan, George Jean

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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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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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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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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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.