Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Hearst, William Randolph

Best Quotes about Politics

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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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 largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Aristotle

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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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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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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

Naito, Fern

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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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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

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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

Goldwater, Barry

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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