Motivational Quotes

Politics

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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

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

Bacon, Francis

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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

Rogers, Will

10.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

12.

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

13.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

14.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

15.

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

16.

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

17.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

18.

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

19.

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

Rogers, Will

20.

The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

21.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

22.

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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

24.

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

Alfred E. Newman

25.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

26.

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

Byrne, Robert

27.

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

28.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

29.

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

30.

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

Cameron, W. J.

31.

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

32.

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

Ambrose Bierce

33.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

34.

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

35.

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

Margaret Cho

36.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

39.

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.

40.

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

41.

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

42.

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

43.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

44.

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

Orwell, George

46.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

47.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

48.

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

49.

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

Nunn, Gregory

50.

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward