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

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Broun, Heywood

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

Fredrich

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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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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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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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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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Marquis, Don

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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

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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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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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

Rogers, Will

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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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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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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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Rogers, Will

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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