Motivational Quotes

Politics

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Albert Einstein

Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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 courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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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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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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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

Bush, George

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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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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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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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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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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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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

Arbuthnot, John

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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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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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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Noonan, Peggy

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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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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cameron, W. J.

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., 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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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert