Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Hattersley, Roy

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Broun, Heywood

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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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 entertainment branch of industry.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Taft, William Howard

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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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