Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

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

Will, George F.

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

Will, George F.

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Bush, George

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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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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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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

Grant, Amy

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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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

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Ringer, Robert J.

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Benn, Tony