Motivational Quotes

Politics

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Rogers, Will

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Charles De Gaulle

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

Mitchell, George J.

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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A politician is a man who understands government and 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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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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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

23.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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

Rogers, Will

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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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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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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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.

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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

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Churchill, Winston

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.