Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Aristotle

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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

Bush, George

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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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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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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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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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

Broun, Heywood

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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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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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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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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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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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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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.