Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

- President Barack Obama

Best Quotes about Politics

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Plato

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Greeley, Horace

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Cameron, W. J.

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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.

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

Welles, Orson

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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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.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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

Cannon, Joseph