Motivational Quotes

Politics

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

- Kocher, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Tweed, Boss

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

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

Will Rogers

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Swift, Jonathan

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

10.

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

11.

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

12.

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

18.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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

Margaret Cho

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

24.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

29.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

30.

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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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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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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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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

Seneca

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

Bush, George

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Benn, Tony

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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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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

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

42.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.