Motivational Quotes

Politics

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Lowman, Hariold

The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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.

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

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Charles De Gaulle

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

11.

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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

14.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, 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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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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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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

Huxley, Aldous

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Rogers, Will

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

26.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Brown, Jerry

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

Field, Franklin

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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

Horace

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Parkinson, Cecil