Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Bush, George

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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.

We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Marquis, Don

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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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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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Charles De Gaulle

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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