Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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

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

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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.

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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

Field, Franklin

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 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 find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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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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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Naito, Fern

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Roche, John P.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Charles De Gaulle

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.