Motivational Quotes

Politics

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

- Charles De Gaulle

Best Quotes about Politics

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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

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

Eban, Abba

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Will, George F.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Nixon, Richard M.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

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

Deighton, Len

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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.

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

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

Rostand, Jean

20.

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

Taft, William Howard

21.

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

Kissinger, Henry

22.

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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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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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

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Field, Franklin

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Arbuthnot, John

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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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

47.

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

Fischer, John

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

Margaret Cho

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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.