Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Roche, John P.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Dane, Frank

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Kissinger, Henry

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Platen

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Rogers, Will

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Major, John

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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 has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter