Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Rogers, Will

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

10.

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

13.

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

Fischer, John

14.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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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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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

19.

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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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

23.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

27.

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

28.

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

Fredrich

29.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

30.

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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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

34.

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

Lowman, Hariold

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

36.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

42.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

43.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry