Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Grant, Amy

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Grant, Amy

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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

Herriot, Edouard

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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

The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

10.

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

Rogers, Will

11.

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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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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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Field, Franklin

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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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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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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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Taft, William Howard

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.