Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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

Charles De Gaulle

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

Fredrich

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Huxley, Aldous

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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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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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Russell, Dora

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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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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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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

38.

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

Plato

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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

Disraeli, Benjamin