Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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

Rogers, Will

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

Gaulle, Charles De

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Bush, George

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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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

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

Alfred E. Newman

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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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

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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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

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Platen

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

Rogers, Will

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Auden, W. H.

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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