Motivational Quotes

Politics

When great questions end, little parties begin.

- Bagehot, Walter

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Aristotle

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

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Fredrich

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

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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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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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

Goldwater, Barry

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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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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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Bush, George

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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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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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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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 political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S