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

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

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Nixon, Richard M.

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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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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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 era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

18.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

28.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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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

30.

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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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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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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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.

34.

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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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Margaret Cho

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Naito, Fern

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

Churchill, Winston

48.

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

49.

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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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.