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

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

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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

Hubbard, Kin

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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

Cameron, W. J.

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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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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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Herriot, Edouard

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

Greeley, Horace

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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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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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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

Hattersley, Roy

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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