Motivational Quotes

Politics

People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

- Rinehart, Dana Gillman

Best Quotes about Politics

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Coolidge, Calvin

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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

Barres

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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

Fredrich

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert 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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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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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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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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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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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

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Will, George F.

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

Benn, Tony

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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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

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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

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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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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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter