Motivational Quotes

Politics

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

- Asquith, Margot

Best Quotes about 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.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

13.

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

14.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

16.

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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

18.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

19.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

20.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

21.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

22.

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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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

24.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

25.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

26.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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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

28.

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

Naito, Fern

29.

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

30.

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

32.

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

33.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

34.

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

Barres

35.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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.

40.

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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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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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

44.

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

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

45.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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