Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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

Rogers, Will

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

10.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

11.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

Ephron, Nora

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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

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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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Orwell, George

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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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

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Platen

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

Cary, Joyce

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Broun, Heywood

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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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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Seneca

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

Alfred E. Newman

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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

Plato