Motivational Quotes

Politics

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Politics

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Noonan, Peggy

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Benn, Tony

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Fischer, John

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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

Margaret Cho

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Barres

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

Arbuthnot, John

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

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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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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. 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

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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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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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Reagan, Ronald