Motivational Quotes

Politics

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

- Cameron, W. J.

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Ambrose Bierce

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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 don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Macmillan, Harold

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame