Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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

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

Margaret Cho

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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

11.

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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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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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

15.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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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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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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

Dane, Frank

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Rogers, Will

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

Benn, Tony

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.