Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Bryan, William Jennings

Best Quotes about Politics

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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

Arbuthnot, John

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

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Rostand, Jean

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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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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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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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

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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

Seneca

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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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.