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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Russell, Dora

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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.

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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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

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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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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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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

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Benn, Tony

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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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

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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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

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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 will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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

Churchill, Winston

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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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 heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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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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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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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Dane, Frank

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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 first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Major, John

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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

Bush, George