Motivational Quotes

Politics

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Mitchell, George J.

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

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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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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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

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

Dane, Frank

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Heine, Heinrich

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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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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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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

Roosevelt, Theodore