Motivational Quotes

Politics

Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

- President Barack Obama

Best Quotes about Politics

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

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Fischer, John

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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.

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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 right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Cary, Joyce

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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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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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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

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

Pell, Claiborne

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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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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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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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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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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 always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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

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

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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.