Motivational Quotes

Politics

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Best Quotes about Politics

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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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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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Cameron, W. J.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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