Motivational Quotes

Politics

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

- Chapman, John Jay

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Horace

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Nixon, Richard M.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Barres

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Major, John

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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 chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Greeley, Horace

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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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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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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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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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 applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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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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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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

Arbuthnot, John

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Chapman, John Jay