Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Hubbard, Kin

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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

Charles De Gaulle

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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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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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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

Rogers, Will

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Benn, Tony

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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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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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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

Roche, John P.

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Bush, George

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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 is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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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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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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks