Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Bagehot, Walter

Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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

Certeau, Michel De

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

Kissinger, Henry

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Rogers, Will

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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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.

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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.

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

Byrne, Robert

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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

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

Mitchell, George J.

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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

Rogers, Will

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh