Motivational Quotes

Politics

Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

- Powell, L. R.

Best Quotes about Politics

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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.

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.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Swift, Jonathan

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Benn, Tony

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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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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

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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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 has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

31.

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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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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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Broun, Heywood

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.