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

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

Fredrich

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

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

11.

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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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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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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

Taft, William Howard

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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Mark B. Cohen

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Eban, Abba

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Margaret Cho

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

Arbuthnot, John

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Bush, George

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

Rogers, Will

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt