Motivational Quotes

Politics

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

- Larry Hardiman

Best Quotes about Politics

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

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roche, John P.

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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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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Cameron, W. J.

19.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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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 I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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

Cary, Joyce

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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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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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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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

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rogers, Will

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Kempton, Murray

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.