Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is a blood sport.

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Politics

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Greeley, Horace

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Taft, William Howard

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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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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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Benn, Tony

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Horace

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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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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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

Cameron, W. J.

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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

Rogers, Will

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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.