Motivational Quotes

Politics

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

- Noonan, Peggy

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Rostand, Jean

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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

Gaulle, Charles De

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Field, Franklin

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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

Tweed, Boss

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

32.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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

Nathan, George Jean

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Churchill, Winston

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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