Motivational Quotes

Politics

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Aristotle

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Hattersley, Roy

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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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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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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

Mark B. Cohen

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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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 we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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

Benn, Tony

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Platen

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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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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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George