Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Lowman, Hariold

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Roche, John P.

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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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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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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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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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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Margaret Cho

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Rogers, Will

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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

Hattersley, Roy

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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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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Arbuthnot, John

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.