Motivational Quotes

Politics

No party is as bad as its leaders.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Seneca

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Benn, Tony

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Arbuthnot, John

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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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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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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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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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

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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 aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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

Dane, Frank

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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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

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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

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Field, Franklin

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich