Motivational Quotes

Politics

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

- Cannon, Joseph

Best Quotes about Politics

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Rogers, Will

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

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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

Fredrich

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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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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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Broun, Heywood

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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 party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Arbuthnot, John

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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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 ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max