Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is a blood sport.

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Horace

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.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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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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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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

Plato

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Benn, Tony

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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

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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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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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Arbuthnot, John

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

Roosevelt, Theodore