Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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

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

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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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

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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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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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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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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.

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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Quayle, Dan

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

Anderson, John B.

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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

Platen

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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.

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

Will Rogers

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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

Will, George F.

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Naito, Fern

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

Fredrich

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Paul Valery