Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Benn, Tony

Best Quotes about Politics

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Benn, Tony

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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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

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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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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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

Plato

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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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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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

Cameron, W. J.

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Pell, Claiborne

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.