Motivational Quotes

Politics

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

- Laird, Melvin R.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Nixon, Richard M.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Field, Franklin

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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.

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

10.

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

Heine, Heinrich

11.

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

12.

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

13.

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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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

15.

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

16.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

17.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

18.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

19.

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

Huxley, Aldous

20.

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

21.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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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

23.

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

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

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

25.

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

Paul Valery

26.

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

27.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

29.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

30.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

31.

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

32.

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

Russell, Dora

35.

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

Benn, Tony

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

37.

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

39.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Fredrich

42.

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

Benn, Tony

43.

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

44.

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

Taft, William Howard

45.

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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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.