Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Rogers, Will

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

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Arbuthnot, John

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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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

11.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mitchell, George J.

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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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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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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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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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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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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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

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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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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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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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott