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

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

Benn, Tony

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Grant, Amy

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Margaret Cho

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Hattersley, Roy

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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 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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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Deighton, Len

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bagehot, Walter

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Huxley, Aldous

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh