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

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

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

Charles De Gaulle

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Heine, Heinrich

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Bacon, Francis

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Roche, John P.

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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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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

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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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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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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.

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

Horace

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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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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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.

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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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

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

Arbuthnot, John

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Goldwater, Barry

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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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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry