Motivational Quotes

Politics

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

- Rinehart, Dana Gillman

Best Quotes about Politics

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Major, John

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Welles, Orson

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

21.

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.

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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.

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Margaret Cho

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

Broun, Heywood

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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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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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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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Kissinger, Henry

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein