Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

- Margaret Cho

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Wilde, Oscar

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Benn, Tony

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

10.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

11.

Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

12.

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

13.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

14.

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

15.

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

16.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

17.

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.

18.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

19.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

20.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

21.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

22.

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

Hubbard, Kin

23.

When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

24.

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

25.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

26.

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.

27.

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

28.

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

29.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

31.

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

Certeau, Michel De

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

34.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

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

Barres

36.

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

Higgins, George V.

37.

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

38.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

39.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

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

42.

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

43.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

44.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

45.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

46.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

47.

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.

48.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

49.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

50.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset