Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Eban, Abba

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

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

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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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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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Dane, Frank

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.