Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Brogan, Denis E.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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

Bryan, William Jennings

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

10.

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

11.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

12.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

13.

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

Charles De Gaulle

14.

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

15.

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

16.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

21.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

22.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

23.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

24.

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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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

28.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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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

30.

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

Dane, Frank

31.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

34.

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

35.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Coolidge, Calvin

38.

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

39.

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

40.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

42.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

44.

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

45.

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.

46.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

47.

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

Welles, Orson

48.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

49.

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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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.