Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Reagan, Ronald

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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

Thatcher, Margaret

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kissinger, Henry

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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

Swift, Jonathan

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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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 a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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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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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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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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 is the entertainment branch of industry.

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

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

Mark B. Cohen

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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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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.