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

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Fredrich

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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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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Kissinger, Henry

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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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

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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

Bush, George

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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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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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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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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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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

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Will, George F.

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