Motivational Quotes

Politics

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

- Cary, Joyce

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Herriot, Edouard

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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.

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.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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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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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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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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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Rostand, Jean

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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

Cooper, James F.

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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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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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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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

Field, Franklin

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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

Dane, Frank

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman