Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Byrne, Robert

Best Quotes about Politics

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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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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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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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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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dane, Frank

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot