Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Kissinger, Henry

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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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.

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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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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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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roche, John P.

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

Noonan, Peggy

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Aristotle

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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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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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 is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson