Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Politics

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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

Greeley, Horace

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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.

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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

Roche, John P.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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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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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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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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.

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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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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Lincoln, Abraham