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

Paul Valery

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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

Coolidge, Calvin

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Noonan, Peggy

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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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 sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Alfred E. Newman

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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

27.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

Bacon, Francis

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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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

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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

Grant, Amy