Motivational Quotes

Politics

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

- Goldwater, Barry

Best Quotes about Politics

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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.

The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Russell, Dora

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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 art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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

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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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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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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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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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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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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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

Larry Hardiman

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

Arbuthnot, John

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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.

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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 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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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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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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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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

Broun, Heywood

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson