Motivational Quotes

Politics

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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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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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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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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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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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Greeley, Horace

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander