Motivational Quotes

Politics

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Politics

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Clarke, James Freeman

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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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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

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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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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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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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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 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 applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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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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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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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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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lowman, Hariold

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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