Motivational Quotes

Politics

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

- Banfield, Edward C.

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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 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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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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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Mitchell, George J.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Russell, Dora

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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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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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

Seneca

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

Swift, Jonathan

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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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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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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

Noonan, Peggy

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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

Bacon, Francis