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

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

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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

Fredrich

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

Brown, Jerry

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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 two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

28.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Higgins, George V.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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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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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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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