Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Brogan, Denis E.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Hubbard, Kin

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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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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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Hattersley, Roy

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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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

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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

Naito, Fern

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Roche, John P.

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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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