Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Reagan, Ronald

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Plato

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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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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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

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Tweed, Boss

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Orwell, George

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

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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 this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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