Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

- R. A. Butler

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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

Certeau, Michel De

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.

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Byrne, Robert

The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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 doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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 hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Churchill, Winston

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Broun, Heywood

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

Taft, William Howard

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

Rogers, Will

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Field, Franklin

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle