Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Fischer, John

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Rostand, Jean

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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

Certeau, Michel De

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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Fischer, John

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

Margaret Cho

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. 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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Jackson, Jesse

31.

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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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.

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.