Motivational Quotes

Politics

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

- Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Best Quotes about Politics

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Margaret Cho

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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 we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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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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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Lowman, Hariold

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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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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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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

Aristotle

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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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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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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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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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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von