Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Goldwater, Barry

Best Quotes about Politics

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Arbuthnot, John

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.

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.

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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

Mitchell, George J.

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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

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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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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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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

Fredrich

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

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Will, George F.

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lowman, Hariold

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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

Benn, Tony

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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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