Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Macmillan, Harold

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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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.

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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

Benn, Tony

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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

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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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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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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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Tweed, Boss

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Russell, Dora

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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

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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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.

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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

Will, George F.

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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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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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.

Brodie, Fawn M.