Motivational Quotes

Politics

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Bush, George

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

Rogers, Will

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

Pell, Claiborne

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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.

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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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 a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

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

Lowman, Hariold

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Kissinger, Henry

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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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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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

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

Will Rogers

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley