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

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Swift, Jonathan

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

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

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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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

11.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

12.

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Dixon, Alan

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Horace

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Hattersley, Roy

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

Paul Valery

24.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

25.

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

26.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

27.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

28.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

29.

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

30.

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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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Cameron, W. J.

33.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

34.

Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

35.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

36.

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

41.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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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.

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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

Byrne, Robert

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

Mitchell, George J.

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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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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

49.

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

Rogers, Will

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil