Motivational Quotes

Politics

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Politics

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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.

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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

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

Orwell, George

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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 applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

17.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Brown, Jerry

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Fischer, John

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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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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.

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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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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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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Berra, Yogi