Motivational Quotes

Politics

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

- Kirkpatrick, Jeane

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Heine, Heinrich

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bacon, Francis

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Arbuthnot, John

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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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 politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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

Benn, Tony

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Field, Franklin

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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

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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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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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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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