Motivational Quotes

Politics

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Mark B. Cohen

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Platen

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Cooper, James F.

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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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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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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

Fredrich

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will