Motivational Quotes

Politics

One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

- Mccarthy, Eugene J.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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.

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

10.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

11.

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

Russell, Dora

12.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

13.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

14.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

15.

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

16.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

17.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

18.

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

Kennedy, Joseph

19.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

20.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

21.

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

Mencken, H. L.

22.

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

Rogers, Will

23.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

25.

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

Will, George F.

26.

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.

27.

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

28.

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

29.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

30.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

32.

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

33.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

34.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

35.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

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

Byrne, Robert

37.

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

38.

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.

39.

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

40.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

41.

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

42.

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

Higgins, George V.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Rogers, Will

46.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

47.

The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

48.

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

Rostand, Jean

49.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

50.

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

Fredrich