Motivational Quotes

Politics

When great questions end, little parties begin.

- Bagehot, Walter

Best Quotes about Politics

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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

Gaulle, Charles De

We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Charles De Gaulle

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. 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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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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

Mark B. Cohen

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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

Naito, Fern

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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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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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

38.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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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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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Byrne, Robert

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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

Aristotle

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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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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

Dane, Frank

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy