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

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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

Rogers, Will

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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

Rostand, Jean

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.

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

Jackson, Jesse

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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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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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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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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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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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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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Seneca

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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

Goldwater, Barry

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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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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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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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.