Motivational Quotes

Politics

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

- Pepper, Claude D.

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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.

Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Benn, Tony

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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

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Nathan, George Jean

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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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.

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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

Noonan, Peggy

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Rostand, Jean

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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

Roche, John P.

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

Field, Franklin

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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

Rogers, Will

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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

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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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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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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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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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

Rogers, Will

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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