Motivational Quotes

Politics

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Politics

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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

Eban, Abba

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

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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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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

Margaret Cho

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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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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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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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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Nunn, Gregory

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.