Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Tweed, Boss

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Naito, Fern

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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

Barres

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

Herriot, Edouard

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

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

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 will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Roche, John P.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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

Cary, Joyce

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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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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.