Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

- Brittain, Vera

Best Quotes about Politics

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Rogers, Will

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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 the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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

Cameron, W. J.

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Kennedy, Joseph

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Platen

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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

Paul Valery

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Naito, Fern

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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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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Roche, John P.

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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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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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.

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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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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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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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