Motivational Quotes

Politics

The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

13.

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

Tweed, Boss

14.

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

Rogers, Will

15.

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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

17.

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

Kissinger, Henry

18.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

19.

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

20.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

22.

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

24.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

25.

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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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

28.

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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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

30.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hattersley, Roy

33.

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Major, John

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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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

44.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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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 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.