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

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

Shakespeare, William

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Quinton, John

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Horace

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Naito, Fern

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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

Cameron, W. J.

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dane, Frank

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

Arbuthnot, John

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.