Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Mitchell, George 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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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

Brown, Jerry

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

10.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

11.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

12.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Will, George F.

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Arbuthnot, John

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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

29.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

30.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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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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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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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

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

47.

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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