Motivational Quotes

Politics

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

- Benn, Tony

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Will Rogers

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Heine, Heinrich

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Cameron, W. J.

One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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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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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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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 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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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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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Bacon, Francis

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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 work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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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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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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

Taft, William Howard

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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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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

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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.