Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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Best Quotes about Politics

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

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

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

Roche, John P.

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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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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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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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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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

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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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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Broun, Heywood

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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

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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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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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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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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Bush, George

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

Alfred E. Newman

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.