Motivational Quotes

Politics

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Barres

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

Dane, Frank

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Platen

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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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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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Bagehot, Walter

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Arbuthnot, John

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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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.

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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