Motivational Quotes

Politics

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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

Cannon, Joseph

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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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

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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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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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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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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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden