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

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

Quinton, John

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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.

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

Mccarthy, Mary

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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

Cannon, Joseph

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

10.

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

Platen

11.

I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

12.

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

Dane, Frank

13.

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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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

15.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

16.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

17.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

18.

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

Will, George F.

19.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

20.

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

Noonan, Peggy

21.

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

Broun, Heywood

22.

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.

23.

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

Alfred E. Newman

24.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

29.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

30.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

31.

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

32.

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

34.

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

35.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

36.

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.

37.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

38.

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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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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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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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

42.

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

43.

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

44.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

45.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

48.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

49.

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

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott