Motivational Quotes

Politics

In politics the middle way is none at all.

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Politics

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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.

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

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

Will, George F.

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

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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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

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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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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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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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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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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Aristotle

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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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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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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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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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

Brogan, Denis E.

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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

Bolingbroke, 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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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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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.