Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

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

Kissinger, Henry

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jefferson, Thomas

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

10.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Pell, Claiborne

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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.

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Orwell, George

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Fredrich

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rostand, Jean

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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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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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

40.

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

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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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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

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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

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

Eban, Abba

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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.