Motivational Quotes

Politics

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Heine, Heinrich

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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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.

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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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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Margaret Cho

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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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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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

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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