Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Rostand, Jean

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Horace

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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

Shakespeare, William

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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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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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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

Russell, Dora

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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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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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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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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

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Margaret Cho

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.