Motivational Quotes

Politics

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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

Eban, Abba

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Roche, John P.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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.

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

Platen

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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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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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

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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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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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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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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Field, Franklin

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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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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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray