Motivational Quotes

Politics

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

- Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

Best Quotes about Politics

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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

Larry Hardiman

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

11.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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

Roche, John P.

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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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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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

32.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Hijazi, Muhammad