Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

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

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.

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

Rogers, Will

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

The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Field, Franklin

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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

Rogers, Will

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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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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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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hubbard, Kin

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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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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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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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail