Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

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.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Goldwater, Barry

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

Certeau, Michel De

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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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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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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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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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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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Rogers, Will

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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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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Seneca

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

Hattersley, Roy

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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

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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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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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.