Motivational Quotes

Politics

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Herriot, Edouard

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?

Twain, Mark

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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

Orwell, George

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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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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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

Kennedy, Joseph

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Marquis, Don

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

Roche, John P.

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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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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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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

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Broun, Heywood

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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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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.