Motivational Quotes

Politics

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

- Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

12.

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

Brown, Jerry

13.

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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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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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

16.

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

Cannon, Joseph

17.

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

Paul Valery

18.

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

19.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Broun, Heywood

22.

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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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

24.

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

25.

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

Ambrose Bierce

26.

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

27.

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

28.

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

29.

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

30.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

31.

We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

32.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

34.

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

35.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

36.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Cameron, W. J.

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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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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

40.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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

Seneca

42.

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.

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

Kissinger, Henry

44.

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

Mccarthy, Mary

45.

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

Benn, Tony

46.

Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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

Albert Einstein

48.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

49.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean