Motivational Quotes

Politics

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Albert Einstein

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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

Rogers, Will

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Orwell, George

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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

Bush, George

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

Hattersley, Roy

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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 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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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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

Alfred E. Newman

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

Kennedy, Joseph

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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.