Motivational Quotes

Politics

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Politics

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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.

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

Albert Einstein

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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.

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

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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

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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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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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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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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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

Roche, John P.

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

Aristotle

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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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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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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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.

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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

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Seneca

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.