Quotes about politics




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

Rostand, Jean on politics    Share


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

Rostand, Jean on politics    Share

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

Russell, Dora on politics    Share

"To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do."

Safire, William on politics    Share

"The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends."

Seneca on politics    Share

"Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not."

Shakespeare, William on politics
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"A politician is one that would circumvent God."

Shakespeare, William on politics
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"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them."

Shakespeare, William on politics    Share

"We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class."

Shaw, George Bernard on politics    Share

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"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."

Shaw, George Bernard on politics    Share

"If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you."

Sherman, William T. on politics    Share

"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."

Socrates on politics
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"A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on politics    Share

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

Stevenson, Adlai E. on politics    Share

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

Stevenson, Adlai E. on politics    Share

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on politics    Share

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

Swift, Jonathan on politics    Share

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

Taft, William Howard on politics    Share

"I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph."

Thatcher, Margaret on politics    Share

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

Thoreau, Henry David on politics    Share

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De on politics
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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 on politics    Share

"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 on politics    Share

"The essential ingredient in politics is timing."

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott on politics    Share

"Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed."

Truman, Harry S on politics    Share

"When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader."

Truman, Harry S on politics    Share

"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 on politics    Share

"It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years."

Truman, Harry S on politics    Share

"I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers."

Truman, Harry S on politics    Share

"In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities."

Twain, Mark on politics    Share

"Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can."

Twain, Mark on politics    Share

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

Twain, Mark on politics
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"I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating."

Tweed, Boss on politics    Share

"A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and doctors. I don't believe it. They are simply the people we are most afraid of. And with the most reason."

Unknown, Source on politics    Share

"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."

Unknown, Source on politics    Share

"Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids."

Unknown, Source on politics    Share

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

Unknown, Source on politics    Share

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