Motivational Quotes

Politics

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Politics

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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.

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Berra, Yogi

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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

Fredrich

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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

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

Dane, Frank

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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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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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 political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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 trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 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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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 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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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.