Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Bolingbroke, Henry

Best Quotes about Politics

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Cooper, James F.

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Naito, Fern

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Orwell, George

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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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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Huxley, Aldous

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hattersley, Roy

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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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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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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 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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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. 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