Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Margaret Cho

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Macmillan, Harold

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Noonan, Peggy

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Will, George F.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Major, John

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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

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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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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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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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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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn