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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.
- Safire, William
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Best Quotes about Politics

1.
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
Anouilh, Jean

2.
All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.
Will, George F.

3.
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
Thoreau, Henry David

4.
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

5.
Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Orwell, George

6.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
Clarke, James Freeman

7.
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
Mark B. Cohen

8.
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

9.
Politics is far more complicated than physics.
Einstein, Albert

10.
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

11.
In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
Swift, Jonathan

12.
The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.
Dane, Frank

13.
In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.
Deighton, Len

14.
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
Noonan, Peggy

15.
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.
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.

17.
When great questions end, little parties begin.
Bagehot, Walter

18.
Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Adams, Henry Brooks

19.
Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

20.
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.

21.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
Certeau, Michel De

22.
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.

23.
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

24.
What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.
Fischer, John

25.
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Rostand, Jean

26.
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Ambrose Bierce

27.
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Byrne, Robert

28.
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Bacon, Francis

29.
Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
Mitchell, George J.

30.
It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.
Junius

31.
A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
Kempton, Murray

32.
Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.
Johnson, Lyndon B.

33.
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
Will, George F.

34.
A politician is one that would circumvent God.
Shakespeare, William

35.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

36.
The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.
Napoleon III

37.
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Landor, Walter Savage

38.
No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

39.
He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
Asquith, Margot

40.
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
George, David Lloyd

41.
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
Cooper, James F.

42.
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
Major, John

43.
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
Eban, Abba

44.
A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
White, Elwyn Brooks

45.
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.

46.
The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.
Baudrillard, Jean

47.
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
Mencken, H. L.

48.
The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
Nixon, Richard M.

49.
There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.
Kocher, Gerhard

50.
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame


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