Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is a blood sport.

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Platen

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

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Huxley, Aldous

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

10.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

17.

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Churchill, Winston

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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

Pell, Claiborne

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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

41.

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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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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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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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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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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

Rogers, Will

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.