Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

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Best Quotes about Politics

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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

Margaret Cho

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

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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

10.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

Cooper, James F.

15.

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

16.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

17.

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

18.

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.

19.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

20.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

21.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

22.

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

23.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

24.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

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

26.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

27.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

28.

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

29.

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

30.

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

31.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

32.

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

Swift, Jonathan

33.

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

34.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

35.

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

Deighton, Len

36.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

Roche, John P.

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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

40.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

41.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

42.

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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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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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

49.

People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

50.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward