Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

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

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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

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

Arbuthnot, John

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

11.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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

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

13.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

18.

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

Taft, William Howard

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

20.

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

21.

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

22.

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

Mark B. Cohen

23.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Nunn, Gregory

27.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

30.

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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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Baudrillard, Jean

34.

Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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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

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

Gaulle, Charles De

47.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert