Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Bagehot, Walter

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Rogers, Will

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.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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

The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Benn, Tony

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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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

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Margaret Cho

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Dane, Frank

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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