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

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

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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

Bush, George

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Pell, Claiborne

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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

Churchill, Winston

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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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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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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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Will Rogers

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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 are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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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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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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

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

Russell, Dora

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Arbuthnot, John

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin