Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Will, George F.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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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

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

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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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.

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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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 the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Major, John

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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

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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

Kennedy, Joseph

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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

Alfred E. Newman

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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.

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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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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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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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Bagehot, Walter

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Charles De Gaulle

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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