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

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.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Fredrich

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

17.

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.

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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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 about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Aristotle

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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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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Field, Franklin

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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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

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Rogers, Will

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von