Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Politics

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Cameron, W. J.

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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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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Margaret Cho

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rostand, Jean

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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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

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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

Fischer, John

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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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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.