Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Franklin, Billy Boy

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Brogan, Denis E.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Goldwater, Barry

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Orwell, George

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Seneca

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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

Herriot, Edouard

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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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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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Rogers, Will

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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