Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Politics

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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

Orwell, George

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Cameron, W. J.

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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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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Churchill, Winston

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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

Welles, Orson

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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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Higgins, George V.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Huxley, Aldous

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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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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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Noonan, Peggy

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Seneca

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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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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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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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Fischer, John

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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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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Macmillan, Harold

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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 are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.