Motivational Quotes

Politics

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

- Mccarthy, Mary

Best Quotes about Politics

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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

Nathan, George Jean

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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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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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Rogers, Will

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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

Marquis, Don

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Tweed, Boss

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Roche, John P.

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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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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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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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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.