Motivational Quotes

Politics

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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 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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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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

Orwell, George

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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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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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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

Aristotle

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

Arbuthnot, John

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Hattersley, Roy

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Rogers, Will

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.