Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Fischer, John

10.

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

11.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

12.

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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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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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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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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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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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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.

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

Naito, Fern

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

Taft, William Howard

39.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

41.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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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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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.

49.

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

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis