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 diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dane, Frank

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

Naito, Fern

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Arbuthnot, John

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Pell, Claiborne

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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

Tweed, Boss

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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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Ambrose Bierce

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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

Cooper, James F.

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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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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

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

Marquis, Don

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

Goldwater, Barry

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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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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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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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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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

Bacon, Francis