Motivational Quotes

Politics

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Paul Valery

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

Cannon, Joseph

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kennedy, Joseph

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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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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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Taft, William Howard

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Alfred E. Newman

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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.

43.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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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