Best Quotes about Politics
In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.
Roche, John P.
If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.
Hubbard, Kin
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
Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
Peter, Laurence J.
Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.
Banfield, Edward C.
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
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
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Jefferson, Thomas
Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
Armey, Dick
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
Galsworthy, John
Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Kissinger, Henry
A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
Kempton, Murray
Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.
Hijazi, Muhammad
Politics is applesauce.
Will Rogers
When great questions end, little parties begin.
Bagehot, Walter
Politics is the art of the next best.
Bismarck, Otto Von
No party is as bad as its leaders.
Rogers, Will
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
Baudrillard, Jean
The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
Mccarthy, Eugene J.
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
We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.
Heath, Edward
Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.
Gaitskell, Hugh
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
A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
White, Elwyn Brooks
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
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.
Swift, Jonathan
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
Thoreau, Henry David
The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.
Roosevelt, Theodore
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
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
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
Will, George F.
Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.
Huxley, Aldous
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
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Reagan, Ronald
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
Mencken, H. L.
Politics makes strange postmasters.
Hubbard, Kin
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
Herriot, Edouard
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Marquis, Don
Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.
Berra, Yogi
It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
Nkrumah, Kwame
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Rogers, Will
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
Parkinson, Cecil
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
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
Benn, Tony
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.
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
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
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Lester B. Pearson
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
Huxley, Thomas H.
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