Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Best Quotes about Politics

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

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

10.

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

11.

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

12.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

13.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

14.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

15.

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

16.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

17.

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

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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.

19.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

20.

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

21.

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

Kennedy, Joseph

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

25.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

26.

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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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

30.

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

31.

Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

32.

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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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

34.

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

35.

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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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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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

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

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

Will, George F.

42.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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

Byrne, Robert

46.

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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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

49.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

50.

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.