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

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Bryan, William Jennings

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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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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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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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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

Rostand, Jean

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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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.