Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Brown, Jerry

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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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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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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

Dane, Frank

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

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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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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

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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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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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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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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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald