Motivational Quotes

Politics

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

- Eban, Abba

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rostand, Jean

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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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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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 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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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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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

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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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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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Goldwater, Barry

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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 highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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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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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

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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

Platen

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

Rogers, Will

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Naito, Fern