Motivational Quotes

Politics

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Politics

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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

Bacon, Francis

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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

Quinton, John

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

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

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

Seneca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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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

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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

Mark B. Cohen

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

33.

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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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.

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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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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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

Fischer, John

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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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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

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Orwell, George

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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

Major, John