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

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

Pell, Claiborne

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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

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

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

10.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

11.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Rostand, Jean

13.

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

14.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

16.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

17.

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

18.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

19.

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

23.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

24.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

25.

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

26.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

27.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

28.

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

29.

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

Rogers, Will

30.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

31.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

32.

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

33.

The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

Roche, John P.

36.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

38.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

40.

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

41.

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

42.

It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

43.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

45.

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

Swift, Jonathan

46.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

47.

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.

48.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

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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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