Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Bush, George

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cameron, W. J.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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

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.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

10.

The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

16.

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

Will, George F.

18.

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

Rogers, Will

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

27.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

28.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Aristotle

30.

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

Seneca

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

33.

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

Rogers, Will

34.

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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

Dane, Frank

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

Orwell, George

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter