Motivational Quotes

Politics

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

- Richardson, Elliot

Best Quotes about Politics

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Taft, William Howard

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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

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

Mark B. Cohen

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Margaret Cho

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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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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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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Eban, Abba

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.