Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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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

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Finality is not the language of politics.

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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Broun, Heywood

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John