Motivational Quotes

Politics

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Paul Valery

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

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Naito, Fern

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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

Noonan, Peggy

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Grant, Amy

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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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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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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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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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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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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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 is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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

Goldwater, Barry

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Roche, John P.

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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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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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

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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

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

Rogers, Will