Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Heine, Heinrich

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Rogers, Will

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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

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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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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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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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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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

Aristotle

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

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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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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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.

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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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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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James