Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

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

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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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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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Kissinger, Henry

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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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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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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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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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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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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Platen

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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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 gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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

Albert Einstein

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Arbuthnot, John

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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

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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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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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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