Motivational Quotes

Politics

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

- Rinehart, Dana Gillman

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Welles, Orson

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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

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

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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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

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

Mark B. Cohen

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

Taft, William Howard

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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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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Field, Franklin

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Major, John

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Seneca

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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 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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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