Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Platen

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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

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

Quinton, John

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

Rogers, Will

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

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Rogers, Will

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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

Rogers, Will

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

Goldwater, Barry

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

Certeau, Michel De

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Fredrich

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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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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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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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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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A politician is a man who understands government and 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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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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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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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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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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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

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

Pell, Claiborne

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Will, George F.

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Jackson, Jesse

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.