Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Hattersley, Roy

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

10.

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

11.

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

Brown, Jerry

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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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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lowman, Hariold

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

28.

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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

Rostand, Jean

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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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

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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.

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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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

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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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

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.