Motivational Quotes

Politics

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Rostand, Jean

The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Goldwater, Barry

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

Benn, Tony

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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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.

18.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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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.

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Rogers, Will

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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

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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

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Rogers, Will

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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 work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.