Motivational Quotes

Politics

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

- Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Barres

What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Arbuthnot, John

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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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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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Seneca

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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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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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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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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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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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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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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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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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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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

Rogers, Will

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Truman, Harry S