Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Hijazi, Muhammad

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Tweed, Boss

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

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Will, George F.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Rostand, Jean

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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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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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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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ambrose Bierce

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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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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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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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Fredrich

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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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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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.