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

Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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.

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.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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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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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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

Dane, Frank

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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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, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Taft, William Howard

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Tweed, Boss

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Roche, John P.

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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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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Margaret Cho

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank