Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

- Mcewan, Ian

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Bush, George

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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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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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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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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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Dane, Frank

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Mitchell, George J.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Cameron, W. J.

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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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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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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

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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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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.