Motivational Quotes

Politics

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Marquis, Don

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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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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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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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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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 will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Jackson, Jesse

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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

Bush, George

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nixon, Richard M.

30.

Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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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 aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Will Rogers

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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

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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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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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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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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 leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Jefferson, Thomas