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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
- Koestler, Arthur
Politics Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Politics

1.
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

2.
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
Reagan, Ronald

3.
Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
Kirkpatrick, Jeane

4.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.
Roosevelt, Theodore

5.
My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
Gorbachev, Mikhail

6.
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

7.
Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.
Jefferson, Thomas

8.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Nathan, George Jean

9.
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Forbes, Malcolm S.

10.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

11.
We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
Rich, Adrienne

12.
It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
Goldwater, Barry

13.
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

14.
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

15.
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Ambrose Bierce

16.
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
Maugham, W. Somerset

17.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith

18.
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

19.
Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
Higgins, George V.

20.
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Byrne, Robert

21.
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
Herriot, Edouard

22.
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
Koestler, Arthur

23.
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

24.
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

25.
Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.
Nash, Ogden

26.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson

27.
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

28.
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.

29.
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.

30.
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
Morley, John

31.
There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.
Kocher, Gerhard

32.
Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.
Johnson, Lyndon B.

33.
The essential ingredient in politics is timing.
Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

34.
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
Arbuthnot, John

35.
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

36.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle

37.
This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
Wilson, Harold

38.
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.
Weber, Max

39.
No party is as bad as its leaders.
Rogers, Will

40.
Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.
Hijazi, Muhammad

41.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

42.
The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.
Roosevelt, Theodore

43.
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
Richardson, Elliot

44.
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

45.
Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.
Taft, William Howard

46.
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.
Auden, W. H.

47.
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
Noonan, Peggy

48.
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
Colby, Frank Moore

49.
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

50.
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
Quinton, John


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