Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Hijazi, Muhammad

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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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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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Major, John

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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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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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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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 Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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 politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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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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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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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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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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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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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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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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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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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy