Motivational Quotes

Politics

Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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Best Quotes about Politics

The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Rogers, Will

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Margaret Cho

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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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

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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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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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 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 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 word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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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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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 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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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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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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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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

Will Rogers

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Aristotle

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De