Motivational Quotes

Politics

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Politics

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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

Churchill, Winston

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Gaulle, Charles De

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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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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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

14.

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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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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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

19.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

22.

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

23.

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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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

27.

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

28.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

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

30.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

31.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

34.

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

35.

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.

36.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Brown, Jerry

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

Orwell, George

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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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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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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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.