Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Goldwater, Barry

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Cary, Joyce

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Will, George F.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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

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

Alfred E. Newman

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Fischer, John

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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 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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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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 human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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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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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Cameron, W. J.

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

Taft, William Howard

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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

Rogers, Will

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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.

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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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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.