Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Rostand, Jean

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

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Roche, John P.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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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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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

13.

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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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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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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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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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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.

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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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

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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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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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

Arbuthnot, John

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.