Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

- Higgins, George V.

Best Quotes about Politics

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Macmillan, Harold

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Roche, John P.

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

Berra, Yogi

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bush, George

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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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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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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.

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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 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

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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

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

Quinton, John

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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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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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

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Hearst, William Randolph