Motivational Quotes

Politics

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

- Perot, H. Ross

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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

Benn, Tony

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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

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

Orwell, George

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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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.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Rogers, Will

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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

Rogers, Will

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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

Mark B. Cohen

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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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