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

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

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Naito, Fern

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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

Cooper, James F.

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

Cameron, W. J.

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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 always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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

Alfred E. Newman

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Fischer, John

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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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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Major, John

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

Will, George F.

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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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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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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