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

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Kocher, Gerhard

Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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.

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

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

11.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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

Orwell, George

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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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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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

21.

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Brogan, Denis E.

23.

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

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Field, Franklin

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Brown, Jerry

35.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

43.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

44.

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

Taft, William Howard

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