Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- White, Elwyn Brooks

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Hattersley, Roy

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

Cooper, James F.

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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.

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

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Larry Hardiman

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

Bush, George

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

10.

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

11.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

12.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

15.

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

16.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

19.

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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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

21.

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

22.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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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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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

29.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

32.

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

33.

Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

34.

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

Platen

35.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

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

Bryan, William Jennings

37.

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

Dane, Frank

38.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Ambrose Bierce

40.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

42.

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

43.

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.

44.

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

Macmillan, Harold

45.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

50.

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

Lowman, Hariold