Motivational Quotes

Politics

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Goldwater, Barry

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

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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

Will Rogers

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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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 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

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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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

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

Naito, Fern

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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

Rostand, Jean

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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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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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 most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Quinton, John

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

Rogers, Will

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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.

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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

Kempton, Murray

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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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.