Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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

Larry Hardiman

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Rogers, Will

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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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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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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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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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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

Broun, Heywood

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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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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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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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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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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Greeley, Horace

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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 the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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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