Motivational Quotes

Politics

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Politics

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Broun, Heywood

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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

Churchill, Winston

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Churchill, Winston

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rostand, Jean

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Eban, Abba

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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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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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony