Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics makes strange postmasters.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Cary, Joyce

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

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Platen

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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

Dane, Frank

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Paul Valery

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Barres

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max