Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Major, John

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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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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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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.