Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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

Will, George F.

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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

Herriot, Edouard

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Churchill, Winston

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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

Arbuthnot, John

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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