Motivational Quotes

Politics

No party is as bad as its leaders.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Byrne, Robert

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

10.

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

11.

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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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

Arbuthnot, John

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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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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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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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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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Platen

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Margaret Cho

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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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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Mark B. Cohen

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks