Motivational Quotes

Politics

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Gaulle, Charles De

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Hubbard, Kin

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Dane, Frank

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

Rogers, Will

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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

Benn, Tony

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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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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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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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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Rogers, Will

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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.

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Churchill, Winston

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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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

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Horace

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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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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