Motivational Quotes

Politics

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Rogers, Will

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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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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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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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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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Field, Franklin

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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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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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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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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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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.