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

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.

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

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Aristotle

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Kennedy, Joseph

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Roche, John P.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Rostand, Jean

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Dane, Frank

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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.

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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

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

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Deighton, Len

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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Politics is the art of the next best.