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

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Clarke, James Freeman

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hattersley, Roy

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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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 essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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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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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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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Margaret Cho

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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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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fredrich