Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Noonan, Peggy

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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

Arbuthnot, John

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

Taft, William Howard

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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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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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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

Rogers, Will

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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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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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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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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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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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.

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

Naito, Fern

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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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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

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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 liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset