Motivational Quotes

Politics

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

- Quayle, Dan

Best Quotes about Politics

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Churchill, Winston

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Shakespeare, William

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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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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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Margaret Cho

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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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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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Arbuthnot, John

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

Naito, Fern

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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