Motivational Quotes

Politics

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

- Naito, Fern

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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

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

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

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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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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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 in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Churchill, Winston

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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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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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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

Lowman, Hariold

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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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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.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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 not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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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.

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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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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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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 politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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

Nathan, George Jean

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