Motivational Quotes

Politics

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

- Bryan, William Jennings

Best Quotes about Politics

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.

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

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

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Horace

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Pell, Claiborne

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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

Will, George F.

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

Arbuthnot, John

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

Tweed, Boss

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Fredrich

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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.