Motivational Quotes

Politics

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

- R. A. Butler

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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.

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

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lincoln, Abraham

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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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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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Plato

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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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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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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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

Taft, William Howard

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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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

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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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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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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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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

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Major, John

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Dane, Frank