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

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Will Rogers

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Bagehot, Walter

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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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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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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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

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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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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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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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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Benn, Tony

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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