Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

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

Will, George F.

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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

Horace

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Taft, William Howard

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rogers, Will

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen