Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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Best Quotes about Politics

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

Platen

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

Rogers, Will

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Rogers, Will

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

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

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

10.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

11.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

12.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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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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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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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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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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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

18.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

19.

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

20.

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

Nunn, Gregory

21.

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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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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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

24.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Tweed, Boss

27.

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

28.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

29.

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

Albert Einstein

31.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Dane, Frank

33.

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

Kissinger, Henry

34.

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

Will, George F.

35.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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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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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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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 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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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

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