Motivational Quotes

Politics

Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

- President Barack Obama

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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.

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 far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Field, Franklin

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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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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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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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Rogers, Will

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Rogers, Will

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.