Motivational Quotes

Politics

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Politics

Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Field, Franklin

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

10.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Cooper, James F.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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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.

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

Major, John

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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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

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Nathan, George Jean

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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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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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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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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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

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Naito, Fern