Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Mark B. Cohen

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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.

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

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

Russell, Dora

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Cameron, W. J.

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Rostand, Jean

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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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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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

27.

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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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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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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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 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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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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

Barres

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Platen

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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

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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.