Motivational Quotes

Politics

Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

- Kennedy Jr., John F.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Berra, Yogi

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Horace

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

Seneca

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

Will, George F.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

10.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

31.

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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 are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

46.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Field, Franklin

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S