Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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.

10.

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

Bryan, William Jennings

11.

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

Horace

12.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

13.

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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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

15.

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

Mencken, H. L.

16.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

17.

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.

18.

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

19.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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

Certeau, Michel De

21.

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

22.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

Arbuthnot, John

26.

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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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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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

29.

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

30.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

31.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

32.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

33.

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

34.

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

Dane, Frank

35.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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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

37.

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

38.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

39.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

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

Margaret Cho

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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

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

43.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.