Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is the art of the next best.

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Politics

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Plato

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Orwell, George

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Taft, William Howard

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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.

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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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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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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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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

Greeley, Horace

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Platen

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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

Byrne, Robert

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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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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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 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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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.