Motivational Quotes

Politics

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Politics

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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

Hattersley, Roy

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

11.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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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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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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

Aristotle

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

Welles, Orson

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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 are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Seneca

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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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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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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.

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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

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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse