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

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.

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Broun, Heywood

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rogers, Will

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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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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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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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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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

Greeley, Horace

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Major, John

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Platen

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Bagehot, Walter

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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

Churchill, Winston