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

Seneca

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

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

Quinton, John

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

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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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

13.

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

Cary, Joyce

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

15.

When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Rostand, Jean

17.

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

18.

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

Brogan, Denis E.

19.

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

20.

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

22.

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

24.

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

25.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Charles De Gaulle

27.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

28.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

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

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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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

34.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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

Rogers, Will

40.

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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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

43.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

44.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

45.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

48.

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

Greeley, Horace

49.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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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