Motivational Quotes

Politics

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Politics

Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Goldwater, Barry

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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.

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Pell, Claiborne

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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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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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

Kennedy, Joseph

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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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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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.