Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Kennedy, Joseph

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Fredrich

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

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

Ambrose Bierce

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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

Will, George F.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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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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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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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Roche, John P.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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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

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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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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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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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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 first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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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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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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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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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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler