Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Fischer, John

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Will, George F.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Kissinger, Henry

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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

Higgins, George V.

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Major, John

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

Cameron, W. J.

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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

Alfred E. Newman

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

Rogers, Will

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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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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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Churchill, Winston

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Benn, Tony

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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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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Noonan, Peggy