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

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

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

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

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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

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

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

Hattersley, Roy

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

10.

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

Quinton, John

11.

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

Arbuthnot, John

12.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

13.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

14.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

15.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

16.

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Jackson, Jesse

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

21.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

22.

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

Fredrich

23.

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

24.

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

Rogers, Will

25.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

29.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

30.

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

31.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

32.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

34.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

35.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

37.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

38.

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

Swift, Jonathan

39.

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.

40.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

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

42.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

43.

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

Eban, Abba

44.

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

Naito, Fern

45.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

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

Rogers, Will

48.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

49.

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

50.

Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi