Motivational Quotes

Politics

When great questions end, little parties begin.

- Bagehot, Walter

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Grant, Amy

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

Cameron, W. J.

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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

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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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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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

Roche, John P.

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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.