Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Politics

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

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Charles De Gaulle

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Russell, Dora

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kissinger, Henry

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

12.

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

13.

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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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

16.

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

17.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

18.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

19.

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

20.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

21.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

22.

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

Rogers, Will

23.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

24.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

26.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

27.

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

28.

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

Margaret Cho

29.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

30.

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

31.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

32.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

33.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

34.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

35.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

36.

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

Seneca

37.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

38.

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

39.

Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

40.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

Fredrich

42.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

43.

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

44.

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

45.

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

Bagehot, Walter

46.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

47.

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

48.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

49.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

50.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert