Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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

Herriot, Edouard

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

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Rostand, Jean

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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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.

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Seneca

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

Fredrich

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Paul Valery

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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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 can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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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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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Taft, William Howard

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Berra, Yogi

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Orwell, George

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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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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Field, Franklin

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.