Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

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

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

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Jackson, Jesse

12.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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

Roche, John P.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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

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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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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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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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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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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Certeau, Michel De

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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