Motivational Quotes

Politics

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

- Certeau, Michel De

Best Quotes about Politics

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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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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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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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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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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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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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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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rostand, Jean

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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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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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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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 have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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

Bryan, William Jennings

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh