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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Certeau, Michel De

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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.

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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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Dane, Frank

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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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.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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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 honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster