Motivational Quotes

Politics

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

- Richardson, Elliot

Best Quotes about Politics

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

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Kissinger, Henry

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Field, Franklin

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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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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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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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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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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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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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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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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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bush, George

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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Richardson, Elliot

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

Certeau, Michel De

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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

Churchill, Winston

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.