Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Adams, Henry Brooks

Best Quotes about Politics

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

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Churchill, Winston

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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

Kennedy, Joseph

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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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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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Will Rogers

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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

Barres

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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.

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Taft, William Howard

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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

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly