Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

- Quinton, John

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Plato

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Bagehot, Walter

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Marquis, Don

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Rogers, Will

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics is the art of the next best.