Motivational Quotes

Politics

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Politics

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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

Cooper, James F.

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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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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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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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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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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

Rostand, Jean

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Dane, Frank

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin