Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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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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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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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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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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rogers, Will

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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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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Pell, Claiborne

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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

Roche, John P.

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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.

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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 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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.