Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Politics

To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Kissinger, Henry

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.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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

Ambrose Bierce

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Taft, William Howard

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Benn, Tony

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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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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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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

Shakespeare, William

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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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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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Will, George F.

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

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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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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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.