Motivational Quotes

Politics

Finality is not the language of politics.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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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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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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

Fredrich

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Fischer, John

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Cary, Joyce

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Politics is the art of the next best.