Motivational Quotes

Politics

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Politics

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Hattersley, Roy

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Brown, Jerry

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

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

12.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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.

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Bush, George

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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

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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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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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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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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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