Motivational Quotes

Politics

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

- Culbertson, Ely

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Greeley, Horace

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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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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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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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rogers, Will

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

Pell, Claiborne

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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

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Dane, Frank

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.