Motivational Quotes

Politics

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

- Ephron, Nora

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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

Pepper, Claude D.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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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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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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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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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Ambrose Bierce

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Rogers, Will

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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

Fredrich

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.