Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

Best Quotes about Politics

The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Noonan, Peggy

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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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Roche, John P.

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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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 is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

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

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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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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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

Cameron, W. J.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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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

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Huxley, Aldous

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.