Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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.

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.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

10.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

11.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

13.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

15.

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

16.

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

Seneca

18.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

19.

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

20.

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

Cooper, James F.

21.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

23.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Orwell, George

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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

27.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

28.

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

Rogers, Will

30.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

31.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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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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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.

37.

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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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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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

40.

People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

45.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

46.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

48.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

49.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

50.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold