Motivational Quotes

Politics

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

- Hattersley, Roy

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Peter, Laurence J.

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Ambrose Bierce

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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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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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bush, George

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Roche, John P.

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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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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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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Taft, William Howard

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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

Cameron, W. J.

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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

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Dane, Frank

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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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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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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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

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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

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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