Motivational Quotes

Politics

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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Best Quotes about 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

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Platen

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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.

10.

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

Dane, Frank

11.

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

Arbuthnot, John

12.

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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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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

Quinton, John

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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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

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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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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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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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.

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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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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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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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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.

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.