Motivational Quotes

Politics

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

- Lieberman, Gerald F.

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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

Hearst, William Randolph

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Bevan, Aneurin

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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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 sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

18.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

19.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

30.

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.

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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

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Fischer, 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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

37.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

38.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Taft, William Howard

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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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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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

50.

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

Jackson, Jesse