Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is applesauce.

- Will Rogers

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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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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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ephron, Nora

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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

Fischer, John

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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

Horace

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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

Churchill, Winston

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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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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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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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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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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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Roche, John P.

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander