Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Pepper, Claude D.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Will, George F.

What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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

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

10.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

12.

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

20.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Goldwater, Barry

33.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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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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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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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

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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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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho