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

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Charles De Gaulle

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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

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

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

Grant, Amy

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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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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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Larry Hardiman

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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 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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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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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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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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

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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

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

Orwell, George

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Cooper, James F.

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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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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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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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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Higgins, George V.

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.