Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Goldwater, Barry

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Russell, Dora

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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

Laird, Melvin R.

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

Roche, John P.

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Plato

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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 end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Noonan, Peggy

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Hattersley, Roy

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Larry Hardiman

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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