Motivational Quotes

Politics

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

- Roche, John P.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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.

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

21.

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Arbuthnot, John

25.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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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

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

Truman, Harry S

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Will, George F.

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Major, John

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter