Motivational Quotes

Politics

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

- Tweed, Boss

Best Quotes about Politics

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Plato

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Brown, Jerry

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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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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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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 adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bush, George

27.

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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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Margaret Cho

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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