Motivational Quotes

Politics

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

- Anderson, John B.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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.

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

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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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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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, 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.

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Taft, William Howard

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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.