Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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

Cameron, W. J.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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

Field, Franklin

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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

Taft, William Howard

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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.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Will Rogers

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roche, John P.

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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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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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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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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.