Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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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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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Rostand, Jean

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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

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

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

Taft, William Howard

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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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 newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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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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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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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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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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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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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Marquis, Don

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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

Charles De Gaulle

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.