Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Montalbano, Benjamin J.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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

Ephron, Nora

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

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

Major, John

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Kissinger, Henry

27.

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Rogers, Will

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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.

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

Taft, William Howard

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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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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

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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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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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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Field, Franklin

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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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

43.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

46.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

47.

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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

49.

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

Rogers, Will

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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