Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Jackson, Jesse

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

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.

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

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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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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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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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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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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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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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

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William