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

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

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

Broun, Heywood

The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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

Herriot, Edouard

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

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.

To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Major, John

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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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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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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

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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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

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Rogers, Will

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Mark B. Cohen

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Gaulle, Charles De