Motivational Quotes

Politics

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

- Sampson, Anthony

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Ephron, Nora

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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

Rogers, Will

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

To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

10.

The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

11.

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

12.

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

13.

What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

14.

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

15.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

16.

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

Marquis, Don

17.

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

Rogers, Will

18.

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

19.

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

20.

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

21.

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

22.

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

23.

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

24.

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

25.

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

Fredrich

26.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

33.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

34.

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

35.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

39.

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

40.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

41.

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

Cary, Joyce

42.

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

43.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

44.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

46.

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.

47.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

48.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

49.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

50.

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

Rostand, Jean