Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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

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

Margaret Cho

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

Cooper, James F.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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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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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

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Roche, John P.

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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

Rogers, Will

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

Cameron, W. J.

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Rogers, Will

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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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

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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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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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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Bush, George

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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