Motivational Quotes

Politics

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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

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

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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 Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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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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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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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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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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

Aristotle

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

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

Margaret Cho

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Rostand, Jean

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Fredrich

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Welles, Orson