Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Politics

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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

Noonan, Peggy

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Rogers, Will

10.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

11.

Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

13.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

14.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

15.

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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Bacon, Francis

18.

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

19.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

20.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Baudrillard, Jean

25.

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Naito, Fern

28.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

30.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

31.

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

Horace

32.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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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.

37.

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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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

40.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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 lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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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 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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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean