Motivational Quotes

Politics

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

- Marx, Karl

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Naito, Fern

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Marx, Karl

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Arbuthnot, John

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Pell, Claiborne

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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

Cameron, W. J.

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

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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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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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Swift, Jonathan

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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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 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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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

Rogers, Will

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Cary, Joyce

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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

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will