Motivational Quotes

Politics

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

- Greenfield, Meg

Best Quotes about Politics

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Roche, John P.

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

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Pell, Claiborne

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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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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Dane, Frank

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

35.

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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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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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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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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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.

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Heine, Heinrich

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