Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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.

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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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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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

23.

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

Fredrich

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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

25.

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

Plato

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Cooper, James F.

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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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 doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.