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

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Nixon, Richard M.

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

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

Kennedy, Joseph

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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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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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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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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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

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

Fredrich

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

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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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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks