Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Goldwater, Barry

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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

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

Broun, Heywood

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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Horace

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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.

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Eban, Abba

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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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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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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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

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

Arbuthnot, John

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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

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Plato

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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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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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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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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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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Field, Franklin

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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