Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Best Quotes about Politics

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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

Seneca

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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

Coolidge, Calvin

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Truman, Harry S

12.

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

13.

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Eban, Abba

15.

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

16.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

17.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

18.

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

19.

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

20.

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

Huxley, Aldous

21.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

22.

Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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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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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

25.

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

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

27.

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

28.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

29.

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

30.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

31.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

32.

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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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

35.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

38.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

43.

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

Major, John

44.

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

45.

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

Margaret Cho

47.

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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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

49.

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

50.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.