Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Goldwater, Barry

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

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.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Fredrich

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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

Roche, John P.

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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

Aristotle

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Field, Franklin

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Pell, Claiborne

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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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

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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

Hattersley, Roy

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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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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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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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

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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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden