Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Politics

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Rostand, Jean

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Eban, Abba

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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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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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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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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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

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roche, John P.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Quinton, John

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Rogers, Will

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

Cameron, W. J.

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

Ephron, Nora

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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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 heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato