Motivational Quotes

Politics

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Politics

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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.

Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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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

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

Nunn, Gregory

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Rostand, Jean

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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 makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Rogers, Will

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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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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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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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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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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

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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