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

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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.

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

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

10.

Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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

Margaret Cho

12.

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

Eban, Abba

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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

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

15.

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

Kissinger, Henry

16.

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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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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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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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Certeau, Michel De

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

24.

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

Cameron, W. J.

25.

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

26.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

27.

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

28.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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.

30.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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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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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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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

43.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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

Will, George F.

45.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Thatcher, Margaret