Motivational Quotes

Politics

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Politics

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Baudrillard, Jean

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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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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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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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Dane, Frank

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Arbuthnot, John

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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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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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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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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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

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Jackson, Jesse

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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 no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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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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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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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston