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

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Mitchell, George J.

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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