Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rogers, Will

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Reagan, Ronald

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

Platen

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

Rogers, Will

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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.

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

Rogers, Will

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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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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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

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Benn, Tony

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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

Pell, Claiborne

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward