Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Dane, Frank

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

Ambrose Bierce

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.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Landor, Walter Savage

11.

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Fischer, John

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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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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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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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 reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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

Naito, Fern

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

Mark B. Cohen

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!