Motivational Quotes

Politics

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

- Brogan, Denis E.

Best Quotes about Politics

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Brown, Jerry

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

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

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

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.

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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

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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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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Heine, Heinrich

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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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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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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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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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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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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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.

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

40.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Laird, Melvin R.

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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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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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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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.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Jackson, Jesse