Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Roche, John P.

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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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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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

17.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Rostand, Jean

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

27.

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

Rogers, Will

28.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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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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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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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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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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

Heine, Heinrich

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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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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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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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

47.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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