Motivational Quotes

Politics

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Naito, Fern

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

10.

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

12.

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

Will, George F.

13.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

14.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

15.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

17.

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

18.

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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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

21.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

22.

The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

26.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

27.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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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

32.

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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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

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Rogers, Will

36.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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

40.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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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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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Cooper, James F.

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

Rogers, Will

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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.