Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

- Quinton, John

Best Quotes about Politics

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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

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

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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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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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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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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 has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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 the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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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

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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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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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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle