Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Benn, Tony

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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.

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

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Rostand, Jean

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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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 organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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 sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.