Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

- Dixon, Alan

Best Quotes about Politics

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

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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

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

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

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Bush, George

11.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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

Benn, Tony

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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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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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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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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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

28.

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rogers, Will

31.

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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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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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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 chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Platen

40.

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

Naito, Fern

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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

44.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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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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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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

Orwell, George

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