Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Field, Franklin

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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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Grant, Amy

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. 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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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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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

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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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.

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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

Hattersley, Roy

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.