Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Ambrose Bierce

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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

Will, George F.

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

Taft, William Howard

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Benn, Tony

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 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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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

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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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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

Plato

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Aristotle

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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.

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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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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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.