Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Greeley, Horace

Best Quotes about Politics

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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.

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

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Horace

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

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

10.

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

Roche, John P.

11.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

12.

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

13.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

14.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

15.

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.

16.

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

17.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

18.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

19.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

20.

Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

21.

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

22.

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

Paul Valery

23.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

28.

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

29.

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

30.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

31.

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

32.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

33.

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

34.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

36.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

37.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

38.

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

Marquis, Don

39.

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

40.

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

Macmillan, Harold

41.

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

Eban, Abba

42.

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

43.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

44.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

47.

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

Lowman, Hariold

48.

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

49.

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

50.

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will