Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Bagehot, Walter

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Lincoln, Abraham

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Fischer, John

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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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.

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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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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

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

Aristotle

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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

Benn, Tony

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

Macmillan, Harold

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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 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 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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin