Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

- Dalton Camp

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Kissinger, Henry

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Alfred E. Newman

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

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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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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.

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

Rogers, Will

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rogers, Will

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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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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

Seneca

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Tweed, Boss

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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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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur