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

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

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Bacon, Francis

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

The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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.

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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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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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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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.

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

Alfred E. Newman

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Lowman, Hariold

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

Charles De Gaulle

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

Quinton, John

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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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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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Rostand, Jean

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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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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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

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Aristotle

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

Rogers, Will

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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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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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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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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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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham