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

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Roche, John P.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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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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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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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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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay