Motivational Quotes

Politics

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Barres

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

Kennedy, Joseph

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Mark B. Cohen

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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

Margaret Cho

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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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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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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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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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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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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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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

Cooper, James F.

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur