Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Broun, Heywood

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Huxley, Aldous

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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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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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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Greeley, Horace

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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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Charles De Gaulle

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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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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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.