Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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

Fischer, John

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

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Marquis, Don

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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

Cannon, Joseph

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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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 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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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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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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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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 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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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler