Motivational Quotes

Politics

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

- Truman, Harry S

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 is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Rogers, Will

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

Berra, Yogi

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Roche, John P.

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

Alfred E. Newman

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Platen

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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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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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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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

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

Rogers, Will

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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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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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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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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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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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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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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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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.