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

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Orwell, George

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

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

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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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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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Platen

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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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.

25.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

26.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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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

30.

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.

31.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

32.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

34.

Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Barres

41.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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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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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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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

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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

49.

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

Plato

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

Field, Franklin