Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Politics

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

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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

Quinton, John

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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

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

Taft, William Howard

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Rogers, Will

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Broun, Heywood

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

22.

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

Brown, Jerry

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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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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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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.

26.

Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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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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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

43.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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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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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle