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

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Bush, George

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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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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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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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

23.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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

Albert Einstein

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Mark B. Cohen

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Charles De Gaulle

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

Cooper, James F.

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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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Higgins, George V.

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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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A politician is a man who understands government and 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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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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

Hattersley, Roy

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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