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

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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 knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Roche, John P.

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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

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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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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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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

Field, Franklin

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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

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People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Pell, Claiborne

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Orwell, George

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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 perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Macaulay, Lord

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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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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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Junius