Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Benn, Tony

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Eban, Abba

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

Rogers, Will

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Kempton, Murray

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Dane, Frank

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Rogers, Will

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

Cary, Joyce

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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

Seneca

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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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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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

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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 has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Ambrose Bierce

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Noonan, Peggy