Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Arbuthnot, John

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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.

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Naito, Fern

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Paul Valery

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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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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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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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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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.