Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Politics

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Russell, Dora

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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.

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.

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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

Noonan, Peggy

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Lowman, Hariold

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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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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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 are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Bagehot, Walter

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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

Rogers, Will

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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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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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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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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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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

Benn, Tony

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman