Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Best Quotes about Politics

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Noonan, Peggy

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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 is the entertainment branch of industry.

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Brown, Jerry

22.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

33.

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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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

35.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Taft, William Howard

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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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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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

Field, Franklin

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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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 an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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.