Motivational Quotes

Politics

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Arbuthnot, John

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bacon, Francis

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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

Macmillan, Harold

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Benn, Tony

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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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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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Alfred E. Newman

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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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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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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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Cooper, James F.

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

Barres

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman