Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

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

Plato

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

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Will, George F.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Benn, Tony

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Fredrich

10.

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

22.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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

Dane, Frank

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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

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Field, Franklin

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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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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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

37.

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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

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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

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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

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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.

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Politics is the art of the next best.