Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is the science of urgencies.

- Parker, Theodore

Best Quotes about Politics

Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

10.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

11.

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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

13.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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.

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

17.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

18.

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

Hubbard, Kin

19.

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

Nunn, Gregory

20.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

21.

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

Dane, Frank

22.

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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

25.

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

29.

To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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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

31.

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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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.

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

Hattersley, Roy

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

40.

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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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Broun, Heywood

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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

Rogers, Will

48.

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.