Motivational Quotes

Politics

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

- Charles De Gaulle

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Rogers, Will

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

Will, George F.

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

Benn, Tony

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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

Huxley, Aldous

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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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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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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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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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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

Dane, Frank

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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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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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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