Motivational Quotes

Politics

Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

- Montalbano, Benjamin J.

Best Quotes about Politics

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Hattersley, Roy

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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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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Huxley, Aldous

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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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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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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fischer, John

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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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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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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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 the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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

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

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William