Motivational Quotes

Politics

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Politics

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Mark B. Cohen

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Pell, Claiborne

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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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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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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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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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

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.