Motivational Quotes

Politics

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

- Brodie, Fawn M.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Rogers, Will

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Welles, Orson

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rogers, Will

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.

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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

Eban, Abba

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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

Margaret Cho

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

Charles De Gaulle

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

Will Rogers

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

Aristotle

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Dane, Frank

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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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