Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Politics

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

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Ambrose Bierce

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.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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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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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hattersley, Roy

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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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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald