Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Nathan, George Jean

Best Quotes about Politics

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

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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 we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Roche, John P.

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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.

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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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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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Pell, Claiborne

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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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 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 politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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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.

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Margaret Cho

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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

Field, Franklin

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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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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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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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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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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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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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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will