Motivational Quotes

Politics

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

- Major, John

Best Quotes about Politics

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Dane, Frank

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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 great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bacon, Francis

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

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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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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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.

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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

Cary, Joyce

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas