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

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

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

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

Dane, Frank

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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

Quinton, John

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

11.

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

12.

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

13.

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

Hubbard, Kin

14.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

15.

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

Rostand, Jean

16.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

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

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

21.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

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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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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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

25.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

27.

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

Greeley, Horace

28.

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 politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

30.

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

31.

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Kempton, Murray

33.

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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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.

35.

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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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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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

39.

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

40.

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

Benn, Tony

41.

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

42.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

43.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

46.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

47.

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

48.

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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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers