Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is applesauce.

- Will Rogers

Best Quotes about Politics

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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 are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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

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

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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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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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Will Rogers

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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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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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

Fischer, John