Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

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

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

10.

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Ephron, Nora

12.

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

13.

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

Alfred E. Newman

14.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

15.

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.

16.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

17.

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

Bagehot, Walter

18.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

19.

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.

20.

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.

21.

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

22.

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

23.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

24.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

25.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

26.

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

27.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

28.

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

29.

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

Major, John

30.

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

31.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

32.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

36.

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

37.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

39.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

40.

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

41.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

42.

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

Fischer, John

43.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

44.

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

45.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

46.

One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

47.

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

48.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

49.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

50.

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

Will, George F.