Motivational Quotes

Politics

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Politics

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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

10.

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

11.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

12.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

13.

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

14.

Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

15.

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

16.

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

Eban, Abba

17.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

18.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

19.

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

20.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

21.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

22.

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

23.

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

Kissinger, Henry

24.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

25.

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

26.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

27.

When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

28.

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.

29.

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

Hattersley, Roy

30.

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

Barres

31.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

32.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

33.

Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

34.

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

35.

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

36.

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

37.

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

Reagan, Ronald

38.

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

Orwell, George

39.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

40.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

41.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

42.

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

Macmillan, Harold

43.

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

44.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

49.

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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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin