Motivational Quotes

Politics

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Dane, Frank

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

10.

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

Kennedy, Joseph

11.

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

12.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Will, George F.

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

18.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Rogers, Will

27.

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

39.

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 politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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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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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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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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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean