Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

- Franklin, Billy Boy

Best Quotes about Politics

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Rostand, Jean

The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

11.

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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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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

Nathan, George Jean

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

Eban, Abba

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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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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Benn, Tony

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

25.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

29.

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

31.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Rogers, Will

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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

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

Margaret Cho

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset