Motivational Quotes

Politics

In politics the middle way is none at all.

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Politics

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

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

Broun, Heywood

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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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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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Seneca

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Alfred E. Newman

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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