Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Jackson, Jesse

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Dane, Frank

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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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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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Rogers, Will

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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

Mitchell, George J.

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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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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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Field, Franklin

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.