Motivational Quotes

Politics

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

- Sherman, William T.

Best Quotes about Politics

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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.

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

Bryan, William Jennings

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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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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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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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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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

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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

Fredrich

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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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

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Nathan, George Jean

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy