Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Tweed, Boss

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

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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

Hubbard, Kin

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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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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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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

Berra, Yogi

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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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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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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Finality is not the language of politics.

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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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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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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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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

Seneca

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

Baudrillard, Jean