Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Benn, Tony

Best Quotes about Politics

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Truman, Harry S

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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

Aristotle

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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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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. 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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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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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Greeley, Horace

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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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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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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