Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics makes strange postmasters.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Politics

The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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

Russell, Dora

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Roche, John P.

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Horace

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Platen

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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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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

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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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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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich