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

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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

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.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Bacon, Francis

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 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

One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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

Hubbard, Kin

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Alfred E. Newman

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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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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Lowman, Hariold

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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

Noonan, Peggy

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Kissinger, Henry

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.