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

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

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

Naito, Fern

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

Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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

Nathan, George Jean

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

Huxley, Aldous

10.

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

11.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

12.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

13.

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

18.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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.

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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 politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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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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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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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.

25.

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

Will, George F.

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

27.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

29.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

30.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

31.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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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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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

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Major, John

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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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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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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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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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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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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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.