Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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

Broun, Heywood

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

10.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

11.

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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

13.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

14.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

15.

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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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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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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

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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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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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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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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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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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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 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

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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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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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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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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

43.

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

45.

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

46.

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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

48.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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

Noonan, Peggy