Motivational Quotes

Politics

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

- Cannon, Joseph

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Ambrose Bierce

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Field, Franklin

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Dane, Frank

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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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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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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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Horace

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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 makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Welles, Orson

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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

Hattersley, Roy

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.