Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

14.

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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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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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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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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

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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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.

48.

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

Carlyle, Thomas