Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Rogers, Will

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Quinton, John

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

Herriot, Edouard

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Welles, Orson

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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

Reagan, Ronald

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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

Rogers, Will

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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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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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

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

Roche, John P.

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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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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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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 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

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

Rostand, Jean

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.