Motivational Quotes

Politics

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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Best Quotes about Politics

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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

Will, George F.

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

Brown, Jerry

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

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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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Seneca

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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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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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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Margaret Cho

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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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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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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.

29.

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

Goldwater, Barry

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Fischer, John

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Cooper, James F.

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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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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly