Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Will, George F.

Best Quotes about Politics

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Ambrose Bierce

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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

13.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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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

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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

Russell, Dora

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Seneca

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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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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

41.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Plato

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

45.

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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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.