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

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Will, George F.

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

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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

Marquis, Don

The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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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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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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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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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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

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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

Bush, George

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Rogers, Will

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

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