Motivational Quotes

Politics

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Politics

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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.

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

Noonan, Peggy

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Field, Franklin

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Rogers, Will

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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 do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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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.

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Platen

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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

Dane, Frank

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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

Bagehot, Walter

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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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.