Motivational Quotes

Politics

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

- Morley, John

Best Quotes about Politics

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Herriot, Edouard

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bush, George

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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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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

31.

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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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kissinger, Henry

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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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

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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.

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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

Field, Franklin

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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.