Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Deighton, Len

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Brown, Jerry

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Bush, George

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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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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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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Dane, Frank

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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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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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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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

Taft, William Howard

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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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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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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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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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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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

Fredrich

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.