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

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

Bush, George

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Dane, Frank

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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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.

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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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

Mitchell, George J.

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Broun, Heywood

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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 you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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

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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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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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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De