Motivational Quotes

Politics

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

- Certeau, Michel De

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Margaret Cho

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

Brown, Jerry

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

Naito, Fern

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Rostand, Jean

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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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Benn, Tony

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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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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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Rogers, Will

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fredrich

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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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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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Dane, Frank

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

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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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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.