Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Politics

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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

Brown, Jerry

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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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.

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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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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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Taft, William Howard

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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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