Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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

Mccarthy, Mary

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Naito, Fern

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dane, Frank

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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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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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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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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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Eban, Abba

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

28.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Roche, John P.

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Margaret Cho

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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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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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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

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

Mitchell, George J.

47.

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 skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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