Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

- Brittain, Vera

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

10.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

11.

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

Kissinger, Henry

12.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

14.

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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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Platen

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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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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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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.

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Rogers, Will

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

Fredrich

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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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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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.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry