Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- White, Elwyn Brooks

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

10.

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

Ephron, Nora

11.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

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

Dane, Frank

13.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

14.

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

Brown, Jerry

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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

16.

The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

18.

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

21.

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

22.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

23.

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.

24.

Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

25.

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

Cooper, James F.

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

Kissinger, Henry

28.

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

Mark B. Cohen

29.

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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

31.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

32.

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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

Kocher, Gerhard

37.

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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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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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

44.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

45.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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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

48.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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