Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is applesauce.

- Will Rogers

Best Quotes about Politics

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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

Alfred E. Newman

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Dane, Frank

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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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

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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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 always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Roche, John P.

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Mark B. Cohen

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.