Motivational Quotes

Politics

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Politics

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

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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

Seneca

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Naito, Fern

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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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.

22.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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.

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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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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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

35.

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

Platen

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Plato

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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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