Motivational Quotes

Politics

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Politics

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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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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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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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

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

Will Rogers

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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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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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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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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

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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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Benn, Tony

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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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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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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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