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

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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

Dane, Frank

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

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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

Swift, Jonathan

To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

10.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

11.

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

Bush, George

12.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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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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.

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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, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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

25.

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

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

Cameron, W. J.

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

28.

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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

30.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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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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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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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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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rogers, Will

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross