Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Aristotle

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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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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Platen

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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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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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 politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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

Certeau, Michel De

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Plato

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.