Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Ephron, Nora

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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

Arbuthnot, John

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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 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 right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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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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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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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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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Dane, Frank

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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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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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Nathan, George Jean

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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