Motivational Quotes

Politics

We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Politics

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Eban, Abba

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

Ephron, Nora

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fredrich

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.

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Welles, Orson

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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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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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

25.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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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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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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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.

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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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.

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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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

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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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

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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

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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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