Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Politics

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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

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

Albert Einstein

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Margaret Cho

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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

Seneca

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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 and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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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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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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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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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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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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

Plato

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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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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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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Rogers, Will

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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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.