Motivational Quotes

Politics

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

- Gorbachev, Mikhail

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Will, George F.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bagehot, Walter

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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

Russell, Dora

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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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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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Eban, Abba

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Plato

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.