Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

- Dalton Camp

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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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

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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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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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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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Naito, Fern

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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

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Margaret Cho

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

Seneca

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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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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Tweed, Boss