Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

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

Cameron, W. J.

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

Aristotle

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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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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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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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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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

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

Benn, Tony

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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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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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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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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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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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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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

Cary, Joyce

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Orwell, George

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.