Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Cooper, James F.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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

Margaret Cho

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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

Rogers, Will

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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

Kissinger, Henry

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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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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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

31.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Byrne, Robert

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Arbuthnot, John

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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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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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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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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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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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

49.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Deighton, Len