Quotes about politics




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"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."

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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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"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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"He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting."

Victoria, Queen on politics    Share

"The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on politics    Share

"People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy."

Watanabe, Michio on politics    Share

"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 on politics    Share

"Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics."

Weber, Max on politics    Share

"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 on politics    Share

"Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there."

Welles, Orson on politics    Share

"A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour."

White, Elwyn Brooks on politics    Share

"Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there."

Wilde, Oscar on politics    Share

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"I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics."

Wilde, Oscar on politics    Share

"He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays."

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"All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point."

Will, George F. on politics    Share

"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."

Will, George F. on politics    Share

"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions."

Will, George F. on politics    Share

"This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing."

Wilson, Harold on politics    Share

"Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on politics    Share

"The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on politics    Share

"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

Zedong, Mao on politics
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"There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career."

Kocher, Gerhard on politics    Share

"The problem is not Republican principles. The problem is unprincipled Republicans."

Rachel, Alfonzo on politics    Share

"The only consistency I see within most politicians is, 'the saying of one thing and doing of another'."

Trean, A. Brandon on politics    Share

"Politics: The exploitation of peoples trust."

Trean, A. Brandon on politics    Share

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