Motivational Quotes

Politics

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

- Broun, Heywood

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Greeley, Horace

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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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.

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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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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Dane, Frank

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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.

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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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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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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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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

43.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin