Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cameron, W. J.

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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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 profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 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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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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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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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

41.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.