Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Politics

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

I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Nunn, Gregory

Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Bacon, Francis

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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

Pell, Claiborne

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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

Certeau, Michel De

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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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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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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

Auden, W. H.

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Rogers, Will

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Churchill, Winston

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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.

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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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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Cameron, W. J.

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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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 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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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Field, Franklin

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.