Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Pepper, Claude D.

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Byrne, Robert

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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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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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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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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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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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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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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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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

Rostand, Jean

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

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

Cameron, W. J.

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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