Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Montalbano, Benjamin J.

Best Quotes about Politics

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Eban, Abba

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Roche, John P.

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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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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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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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

Noonan, Peggy

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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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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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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

Arbuthnot, John

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.