Motivational Quotes

Politics

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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.

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

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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

Dane, Frank

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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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 essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Aristotle

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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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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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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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 is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Fredrich

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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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

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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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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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas