Motivational Quotes

Politics

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

- Brodie, Fawn M.

Best Quotes about Politics

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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

Welles, Orson

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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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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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Rogers, Will

18.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Charles De Gaulle

21.

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

28.

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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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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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

34.

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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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

36.

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Mark B. Cohen

42.

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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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

44.

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

Rogers, Will

45.

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

46.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

47.

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Rostand, Jean

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will