Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

- Adams, Henry Brooks

Best Quotes about Politics

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Welles, Orson

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Roche, John P.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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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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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

36.

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Taft, William Howard

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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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

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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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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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