Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Cary, Joyce

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

Higgins, George V.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Nathan, George Jean

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Rogers, Will

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

Plato

12.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

14.

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

Alfred E. Newman

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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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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.

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

19.

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

Platen

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

23.

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Taft, William Howard

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Jackson, Jesse

33.

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

Arbuthnot, John

34.

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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 chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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

Bush, George

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

Rogers, Will

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Noonan, Peggy

49.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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