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

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

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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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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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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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

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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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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

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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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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Broun, Heywood

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Greeley, Horace

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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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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

40.

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

Taft, William Howard

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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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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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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Margaret Cho

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers