Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Noonan, Peggy

Best Quotes about Politics

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Benn, Tony

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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

Swift, Jonathan

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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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 makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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

Churchill, Winston

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

17.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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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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.

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

Rogers, Will

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roche, John P.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Major, John

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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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

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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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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