Motivational Quotes

Politics

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

- Greeley, Horace

Best Quotes about Politics

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Barres

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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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

Broun, Heywood

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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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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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

18.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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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

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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

Field, Franklin

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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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

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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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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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Marquis, Don