Motivational Quotes

Politics

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Reagan, Ronald

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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

Barres

To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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.

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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 ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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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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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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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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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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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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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John