Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Dane, Frank

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

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

Bagehot, Walter

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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

Ambrose Bierce

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

10.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

11.

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

Higgins, George V.

12.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

15.

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

16.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

17.

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

18.

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

Roche, John P.

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

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.

21.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

22.

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

Kissinger, Henry

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

Cameron, W. J.

26.

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

Welles, Orson

27.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

29.

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

30.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

31.

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.

32.

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

Swift, Jonathan

33.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

34.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

35.

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

Rogers, Will

36.

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

37.

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

Benn, Tony

38.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

39.

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

Mccarthy, Mary

40.

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.