Motivational Quotes

Politics

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Politics

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Seneca

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Mitchell, George J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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.

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Major, John

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

Fredrich

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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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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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.

35.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Field, Franklin

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Orwell, George

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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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