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

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Kennedy, Joseph

Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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

Quinton, John

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

Herriot, Edouard

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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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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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Cameron, W. J.

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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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 is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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

Dane, Frank

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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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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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Dane, Frank

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Roche, John P.

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