Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

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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

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

Brogan, Denis E.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Noonan, Peggy

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Seneca

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

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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 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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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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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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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 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

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Gaulle, Charles De

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Field, Franklin

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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

Roche, John P.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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 is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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 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

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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