Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Politics

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year’s one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
Bill Clinton (b.1946) American Head of State, Lawyer, Public Speaker

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) American Head of State

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
Quintilian (c.35–c.100 CE) Roman Rhetorician, Literary Critic

Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist

I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, “Dear Jack: Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.
Gerald F. Lieberman

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) French General, Statesman

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don’t understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn’t a business.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) Russian Head of State, Political leader

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
John Jay Chapman (1862–1933) American Literary Critic, Essayist

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can’t ruin this country even with politics.
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist

There have been many great men that have flattered the people, who never loved them; and there may be many that they have loved, they know not wherefore: so that, if they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
Marshall Mcluhan (1911–80) Canadian Writer, Thinker, Educator

In politics the middle way is none at all.
John Adams (1735–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer

If you can’t stand a little sacrifice and you can’t stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we’re never going to straighten this country out.
Ross Perot (1930–2019) American Businessman

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) Russian Head of State, Political leader

If a politician isn’t doing it to his wife , then he’s doing it to his country.
Amy Grant (b.1960) American Singer-Songwriter

How little do politics affect the life, the moral life of a nation. One single good book influences the people a vast deal more.
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–98) English Liberal Statesman, Prime Minister

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) British Royal

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?
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist

There is no Canaan in politics.—As health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil, so there is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
Wendell Phillips (1811–84) American Abolitionist, Lawyer, Orator

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Irish Satirist

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of can’t and hypocrisy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) American Head of State

People say I’m indecisive, but I don’t know about that.
George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) American Republican Statesman, 41st President

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he had taken a poll in the land of Israel? What would have happened to the Reformation if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn’t polls or public opinion of the moment that counts. It’s right and wrong and leadership.
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) American Head of State

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