Motivational Quotes

Politics

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Politics

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Arbuthnot, John

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Cameron, W. J.

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 is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

12.

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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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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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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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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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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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

32.

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

Rogers, Will

33.

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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Eban, Abba

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Benn, Tony

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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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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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will