Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Nixon, Richard M.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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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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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Field, Franklin

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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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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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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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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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

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

Ambrose Bierce