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

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

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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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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 problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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

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

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Rogers, Will

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Aristotle

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pell, Claiborne

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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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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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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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin