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

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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

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

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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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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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

Bush, George

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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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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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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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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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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.