Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Politics

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Margaret Cho

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

Shakespeare, William

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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.

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

Taft, William Howard

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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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

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Cameron, W. J.

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Rogers, Will

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Rogers, Will

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

Noonan, Peggy

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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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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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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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph