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

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Margaret Cho

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Seneca

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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

Rostand, Jean

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Platen

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

Cary, Joyce

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

33.

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

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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

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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 the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

48.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern