Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is a blood sport.

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Politics

I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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

Rogers, Will

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Kissinger, Henry

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Plato

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

10.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

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

Pell, Claiborne

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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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

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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A politician is a man who understands government and 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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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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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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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

27.

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

Brown, Jerry

28.

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

Rogers, Will

30.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

40.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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.

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

44.

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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

Aristotle

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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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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill