Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Hattersley, Roy

Best Quotes about Politics

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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

Taft, William Howard

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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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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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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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

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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

Nathan, George Jean

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

Rogers, Will

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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

Bush, George

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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

Horace

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.