Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

- Lowman, Hariold

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Cannon, Joseph

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Fredrich

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Alfred E. Newman

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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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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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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

Taft, William Howard

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Orwell, George

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Rogers, Will

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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