Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is applesauce.

- Will Rogers

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

Roche, John P.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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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

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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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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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Goldwater, Barry

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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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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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Alfred E. Newman

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

Orwell, George

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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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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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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

47.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John