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

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

Grant, Amy

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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.

Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

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

Bacon, Francis

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Hattersley, Roy

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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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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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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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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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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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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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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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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

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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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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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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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