Motivational Quotes

Politics

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

- Sherman, William T.

Best Quotes about Politics

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Rogers, Will

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Barres

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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 first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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

Naito, Fern

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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 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.

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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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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Broun, Heywood

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

Rostand, Jean

31.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Seneca

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Huxley, Aldous