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

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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

Orwell, George

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Churchill, Winston

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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

Eban, Abba

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Major, John

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

Brogan, Denis E.

23.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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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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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, 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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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

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Benn, Tony

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean