Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Huxley, Aldous

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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

Eban, Abba

10.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

11.

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.

12.

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

Rogers, Will

13.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

14.

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.

15.

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

16.

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

17.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

18.

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

19.

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

20.

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

21.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

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.

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

27.

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

28.

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

29.

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

30.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

31.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

33.

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

34.

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

35.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

36.

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

37.

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

38.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

39.

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

40.

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

41.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

42.

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

43.

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

44.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

46.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

47.

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

48.

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

Paul Valery

49.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

50.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera