Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Nixon, Richard M.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Will, George F.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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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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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Orwell, George

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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

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

Herriot, Edouard

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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

Margaret Cho

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Welles, Orson

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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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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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

Disraeli, Benjamin