Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

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

Plato

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

10.

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

11.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

12.

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

13.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

14.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

15.

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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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.

Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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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

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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

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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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Cameron, W. J.

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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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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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

30.

Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

31.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

32.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

33.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bush, George

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

50.

To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William