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

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

Orwell, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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

Barres

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

Welles, Orson

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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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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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Broun, Heywood

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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

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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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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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

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

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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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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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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.