Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is a blood sport.

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Nathan, George Jean

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Laird, Melvin R.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

10.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

11.

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jackson, Jesse

18.

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

Major, John

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

Mark B. Cohen

20.

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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

Naito, Fern

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

27.

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

28.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

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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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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

Eban, Abba

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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

35.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

46.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

48.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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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.