Motivational Quotes

Politics

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

- Huxley, Thomas H.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Ambrose Bierce

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Margaret Cho

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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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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Grant, Amy

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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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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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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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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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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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

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

Nixon, Richard M.