Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

- Herriot, Edouard

Best Quotes about Politics

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

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

Cameron, W. J.

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

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

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

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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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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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.

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

Bush, George

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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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.

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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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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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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

Shakespeare, William

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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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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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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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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