Motivational Quotes

Politics

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

- Certeau, Michel De

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

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

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Cary, Joyce

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Broun, Heywood

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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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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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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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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.

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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

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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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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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

Rogers, Will

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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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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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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