Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Field, Franklin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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

Kissinger, Henry

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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

Dane, Frank

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

Noonan, Peggy

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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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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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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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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Rogers, Will

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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.