Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Mark B. Cohen

Best Quotes about Politics

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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

Mark B. Cohen

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

15.

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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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.

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Platen

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bush, George