Motivational Quotes

Politics

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

- Galsworthy, John

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

Bagehot, Walter

11.

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

Noonan, Peggy

12.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

13.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

14.

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

Quinton, John

15.

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

Kempton, Murray

16.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

17.

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

18.

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

19.

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

20.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

21.

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.

22.

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

23.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

24.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

25.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

26.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

27.

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

28.

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

Dane, Frank

29.

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

30.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

31.

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

32.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

33.

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

34.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

35.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

40.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

41.

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

Horace

42.

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

Roche, John P.

43.

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

44.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

45.

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

Broun, Heywood

46.

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

47.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

49.

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

50.

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.