Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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

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

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.

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

Noonan, Peggy

10.

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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

12.

The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

13.

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

14.

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.

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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

16.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

17.

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

18.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

19.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

20.

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

Rostand, Jean

21.

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

22.

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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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Rogers, Will

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

28.

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

Rogers, Will

29.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

30.

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

Aristotle

31.

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

32.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

33.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

35.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Tweed, Boss

37.

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

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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

39.

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

40.

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

41.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

42.

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

43.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

45.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

49.

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

50.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George