Motivational Quotes

Politics

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Politics

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bagehot, Walter

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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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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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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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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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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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

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 is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Lowman, Hariold

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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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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.

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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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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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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

Kissinger, Henry

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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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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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George