Motivational Quotes

Politics

In politics the middle way is none at all.

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bacon, Francis

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

10.

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

11.

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

12.

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

13.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

14.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

15.

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

16.

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

Naito, Fern

17.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

18.

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

19.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

21.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

23.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

25.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

26.

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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

28.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

29.

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

Kissinger, Henry

30.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

31.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

33.

Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

35.

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

Will, George F.

36.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Rogers, Will

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Rogers, Will

42.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

43.

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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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

46.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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.