Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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.

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

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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

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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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Bush, George

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

31.

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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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

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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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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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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

Roche, John P.

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, 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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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Bevan, Aneurin