Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Politics

If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Benn, Tony

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.

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

Cameron, W. J.

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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.

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Roche, John P.

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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

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

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

Alfred E. Newman

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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Aristotle

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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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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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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

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Orwell, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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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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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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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Fredrich

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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.