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

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

Arbuthnot, John

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

Alfred E. Newman

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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.

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

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Will, George F.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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

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

Seneca

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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 politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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

Platen

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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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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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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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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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

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

Brown, Jerry

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.