Motivational Quotes

Politics

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

- Fredrich

Best Quotes about Politics

When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Platen

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

Horace

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

Thatcher, Margaret

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Churchill, Winston

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Benn, Tony

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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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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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

Dane, Frank

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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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.

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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Naito, Fern

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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

Albert Einstein

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.