Motivational Quotes

Politics

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Barres

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

Clarke, James Freeman

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

11.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Paul Valery

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dane, Frank

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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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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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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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

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

Roche, John P.

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

Hattersley, Roy

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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

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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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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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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 trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.