Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Politics

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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

Noonan, Peggy

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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

Kempton, Murray

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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

Arbuthnot, John

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

Taft, William Howard

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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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

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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 sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.