Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Goldwater, Barry

Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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

Margaret Cho

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

Charles De Gaulle

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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 heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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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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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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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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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.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mark B. Cohen

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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

Noonan, Peggy

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Benn, Tony

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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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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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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.