Motivational Quotes

Politics

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Politics

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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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.

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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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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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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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, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Mitchell, George J.

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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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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

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

Greeley, Horace

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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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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

31.

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

Cary, Joyce

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Rogers, Will

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Platen

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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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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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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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean