Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

- Armey, Dick

Best Quotes about Politics

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Benn, Tony

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

12.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Rogers, Will

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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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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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

18.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Orwell, George

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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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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

23.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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

25.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

30.

Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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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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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John