Motivational Quotes

Politics

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Platen

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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.

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

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

10.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

11.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

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

13.

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

Certeau, Michel De

14.

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

Kissinger, Henry

15.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

16.

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

17.

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

Mencken, H. L.

18.

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

19.

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

Wilde, Oscar

20.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

21.

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.

22.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

23.

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

24.

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

Kempton, Murray

25.

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

26.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

27.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

28.

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.

29.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Larry Hardiman

31.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

32.

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

33.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

34.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

35.

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

36.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

37.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

41.

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

42.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

43.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

44.

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

Quinton, John

45.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.