Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics makes strange postmasters.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Alfred E. Newman

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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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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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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

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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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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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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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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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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

Rostand, Jean

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.