Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

- R. A. Butler

Best Quotes about Politics

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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

Dane, Frank

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

Field, Franklin

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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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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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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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Benn, Tony

23.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Nathan, George Jean

31.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

37.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Bush, George

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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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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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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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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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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin