Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

- Taft, William Howard

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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

Jackson, Jesse

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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

Brogan, Denis E.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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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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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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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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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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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 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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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg