Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Cooper, James F.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Nixon, Richard M.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gaulle, Charles De

11.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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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

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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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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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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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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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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

Rogers, Will

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

Taft, William Howard

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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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

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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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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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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 house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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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

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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