Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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.

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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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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 lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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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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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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.

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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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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 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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler