Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Major, John

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Will, George F.

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Brogan, Denis E.

11.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Broun, Heywood

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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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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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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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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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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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

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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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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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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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

Rogers, Will

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Jackson, Jesse

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

Paul Valery

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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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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.