Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

- Will, George F.

Best Quotes about Politics

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Kennedy, Joseph

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

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

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

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

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

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

Field, Franklin

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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

Taft, William Howard

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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 a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas 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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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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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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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Deighton, Len

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

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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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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

49.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold