Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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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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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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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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 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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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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

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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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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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

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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 House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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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

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler