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

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Heine, Heinrich

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

10.

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

11.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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

Aristotle

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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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 right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Larry Hardiman

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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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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Kissinger, Henry

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.