Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

- Chapman, John Jay

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Dane, Frank

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

Plato

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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

Roche, John P.

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

Cannon, Joseph

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Aristotle

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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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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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh