Motivational Quotes

Politics

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Politics

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Mark B. Cohen

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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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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

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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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.

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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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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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

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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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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

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Rostand, Jean

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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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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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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

Platen

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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