Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Parkinson, Cecil

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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

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.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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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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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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 are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. 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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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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

Shakespeare, William

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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

Goldwater, Barry

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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

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

Ephron, Nora

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

Aristotle

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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