Motivational Quotes

Politics

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Rogers, Will

18.

Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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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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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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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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 problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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

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

Alfred E. Newman

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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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 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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Margaret Cho

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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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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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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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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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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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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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean