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

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

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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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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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Grant, Amy

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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

Aristotle

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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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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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

Cooper, James F.

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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

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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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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Hubbard, Kin