Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

- Brittain, Vera

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Hubbard, Kin

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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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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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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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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

Benn, Tony

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Naito, Fern

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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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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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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 majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter