Motivational Quotes

Politics

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Politics

Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Arbuthnot, John

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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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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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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Burke, Edmund

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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 is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Rogers, Will

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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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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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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