Motivational Quotes

Politics

The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

- Anderson, John B.

Best Quotes about Politics

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Aristotle

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

Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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

Mitchell, George J.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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

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

Arbuthnot, John

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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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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Pell, Claiborne

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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

Barres

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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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III