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

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

Hattersley, Roy

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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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

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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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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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Broun, Heywood

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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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 gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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

Tweed, Boss

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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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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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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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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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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

Herriot, Edouard

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will