Motivational Quotes

Politics

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Politics

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ambrose Bierce

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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

Heine, Heinrich

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Rogers, Will

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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-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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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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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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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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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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