Motivational Quotes

Politics

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Tweed, Boss

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

10.

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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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

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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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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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

18.

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

Bush, George

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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

20.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

25.

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

Field, Franklin

26.

It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

30.

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

Plato

31.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

34.

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

39.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Bacon, Francis

41.

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

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

Dane, Frank

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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

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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

Cameron, W. J.

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert