Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Bryan, William Jennings

Best Quotes about Politics

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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

Herriot, Edouard

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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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

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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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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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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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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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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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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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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

31.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

32.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Taft, William Howard

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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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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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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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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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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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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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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.