Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Fredrich

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

Roche, John P.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Kocher, Gerhard

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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

Noonan, Peggy

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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 the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Major, John

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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 a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Cannon, Joseph

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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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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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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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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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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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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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