Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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.

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

Rostand, Jean

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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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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

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Roche, John P.

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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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 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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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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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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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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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Mark B. Cohen

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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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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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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.