Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

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

Aristotle

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

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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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

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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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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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

Orwell, George

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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

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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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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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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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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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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Churchill, Winston

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Cameron, W. J.

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

Dane, Frank

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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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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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

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

Goldwater, Barry