Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Kissinger, Henry

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Hubbard, Kin

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

10.

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

11.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

12.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

13.

Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

15.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

16.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

17.

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.

18.

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

19.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

20.

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

21.

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

Greeley, Horace

22.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

23.

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.

24.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

26.

The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

27.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

28.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

29.

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

Fischer, John

30.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

31.

Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

32.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

Brogan, Denis E.

34.

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

35.

The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

36.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

37.

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.

38.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

39.

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

40.

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.

41.

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