Motivational Quotes

Politics

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

- George, David Lloyd

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Albert Einstein

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brown, Jerry

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

Aristotle

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

10.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

13.

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

Ephron, Nora

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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

Dane, Frank

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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

35.

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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

Hattersley, Roy

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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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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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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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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.