Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Will, George F.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Churchill, Winston

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Nunn, Gregory

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Orwell, George

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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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

Naito, Fern

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Byrne, Robert

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fredrich

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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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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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Greeley, Horace