Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about Politics

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

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Mccarthy, Mary

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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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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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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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 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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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill