Motivational Quotes

Politics

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Politics

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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

Rostand, Jean

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Fredrich

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

Bevan, Aneurin

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Huxley, Aldous

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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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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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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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 belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.