Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Adams, Henry Brooks

Best Quotes about Politics

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Brown, Jerry

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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 we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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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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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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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.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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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

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

Taft, William Howard

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Rostand, Jean

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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 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

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.