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

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

Field, Franklin

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.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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

Plato

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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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

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

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Rogers, Will

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Huxley, Aldous

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Rogers, Will

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Hattersley, Roy

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