Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Kempton, Murray

Best Quotes about Politics

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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

Dane, Frank

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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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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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Benn, Tony

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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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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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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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 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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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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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.