Motivational Quotes

Politics

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

- Bryce, James

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.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Aristotle

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

Charles De Gaulle

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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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Margaret Cho

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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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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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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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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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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De