Motivational Quotes

Politics

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

- Deighton, Len

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Paul Valery

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Taft, William Howard

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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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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Roche, John P.

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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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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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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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.

Rogers, Will

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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.