Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Brown, Jerry

Best Quotes about Politics

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Naito, Fern

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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 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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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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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

42.

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Fredrich

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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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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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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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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter