Motivational Quotes

Politics

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

- Quayle, Dan

Best Quotes about Politics

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Paul Valery

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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.

11.

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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

15.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

16.

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Field, Franklin

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

21.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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

25.

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

Fredrich

28.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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

Hattersley, Roy

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

39.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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

Will Rogers

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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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 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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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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