Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Alfred E. Newman

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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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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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Margaret Cho

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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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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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

Rogers, Will

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

38.

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

Rogers, Will

39.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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

Cooper, James F.

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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

Rogers, Will

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

Hattersley, Roy

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Never answer a question from a farmer.