Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Montalbano, Benjamin J.

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Roche, John P.

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

10.

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

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

11.

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

Pell, Claiborne

12.

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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

14.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

15.

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

Bush, George

17.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

18.

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.

19.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

20.

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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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

25.

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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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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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.

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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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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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

38.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

41.

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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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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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

46.

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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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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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott