Motivational Quotes

Politics

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Politics

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wilde, Oscar

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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

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

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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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 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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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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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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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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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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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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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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

Field, Franklin

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Noonan, Peggy

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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

Major, John

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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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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

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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 political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama