Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Dane, Frank

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

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.

Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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

Ambrose Bierce

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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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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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Mitchell, George J.

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Rostand, Jean

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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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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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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

Eban, Abba

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Broun, Heywood

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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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 lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony