Motivational Quotes

Politics

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

- Jimmy Wales

Best Quotes about Politics

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Dane, Frank

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Berra, Yogi

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

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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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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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Cameron, W. J.

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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 will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Barres

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

Platen

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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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 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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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Nathan, George Jean

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Alfred E. Newman

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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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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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

Roche, John P.

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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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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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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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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