Motivational Quotes

Politics

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Politics

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

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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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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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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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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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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

Welles, Orson

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill