Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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

Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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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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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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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Kempton, Murray

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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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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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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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

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

Seneca

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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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 a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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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.

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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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