Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics makes strange postmasters.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Benn, Tony

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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

Macmillan, Harold

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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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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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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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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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Field, Franklin

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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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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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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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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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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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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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 first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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

Fredrich

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.