Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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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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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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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.

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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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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

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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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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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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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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Cameron, W. J.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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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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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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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

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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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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Benn, Tony