Motivational Quotes

Politics

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Politics

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

10.

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

11.

Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

12.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

13.

To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

14.

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

15.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

16.

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

Field, Franklin

17.

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

Rogers, Will

18.

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

19.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

20.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

21.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

22.

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

23.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

24.

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

25.

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

26.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

27.

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

28.

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

Ambrose Bierce

29.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

30.

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

Major, John

31.

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

32.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

33.

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

Horace

34.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

35.

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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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

37.

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

38.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

39.

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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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

41.

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

Roche, John P.

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

44.

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

Deighton, Len

45.

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

46.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

47.

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

48.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

49.

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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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry