Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Byrne, Robert

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

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.

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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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

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

Fredrich

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, 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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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

Noonan, Peggy

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Bush, George

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Ephron, Nora

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden