Motivational Quotes

Politics

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Politics

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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.

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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Bacon, Francis

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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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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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Dane, Frank

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Benn, Tony

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Brown, Jerry

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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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 is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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

Benn, Tony

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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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