Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Macmillan, Harold

Best Quotes about Politics

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Rostand, Jean

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Kempton, Murray

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Nathan, George Jean

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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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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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Major, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Kissinger, Henry

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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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

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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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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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Fredrich

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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