Motivational Quotes

Politics

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

- Cudworth, Ralph J.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Aristotle

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

10.

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

11.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

12.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

14.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

15.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

16.

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

17.

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

Arbuthnot, John

18.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

19.

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bagehot, Walter

22.

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

23.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

24.

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

Cannon, Joseph

25.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

26.

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

27.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

28.

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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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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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

31.

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

34.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

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

36.

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

37.

Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

38.

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

39.

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

Platen

40.

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

Mark B. Cohen

41.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

44.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

45.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

46.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

47.

The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

48.

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

49.

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

Mencken, H. L.

50.

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

Brogan, Denis E.