Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Rogers, Will

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

Rostand, Jean

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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

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

Marquis, Don

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Major, John

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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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Alfred E. Newman

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Dane, Frank

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

Fischer, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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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 highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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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

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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

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hattersley, Roy

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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.