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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Mitchell, George J.

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

Mark B. Cohen

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Greeley, Horace

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

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

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Bacon, Francis

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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

Truman, Harry S

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Noonan, Peggy

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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

Naito, Fern

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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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 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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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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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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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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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.

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

Platen

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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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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.