Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

- Dalton Camp

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Truman, Harry S

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Alfred E. Newman

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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

Greeley, Horace

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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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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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Cannon, Joseph

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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

Roche, John P.

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mark B. Cohen

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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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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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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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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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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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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Field, Franklin

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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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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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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