Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Charles De Gaulle

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

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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

Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Orwell, George

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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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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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bush, George

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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

Goldwater, Barry

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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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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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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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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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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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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.

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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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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy