Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Herriot, Edouard

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Rogers, Will

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Charles De Gaulle

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

Fischer, John

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Heine, Heinrich

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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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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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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.

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Dane, Frank

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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.

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Field, Franklin

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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 entertainment branch of industry.

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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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

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy