Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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

Cameron, W. J.

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

Macmillan, Harold

To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Mark B. Cohen

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

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

Fischer, John

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Greeley, Horace

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Broun, Heywood

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

Brown, Jerry

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Rogers, Will

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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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 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

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

Rostand, Jean

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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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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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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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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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.

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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 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