Motivational Quotes

Politics

No party is as bad as its leaders.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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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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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Orwell, 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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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

Albert Einstein

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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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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.