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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Rogers, Will

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

Cameron, W. J.

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

Aristotle

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Broun, Heywood

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

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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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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Fischer, John

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Byrne, Robert

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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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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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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

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

Marquis, Don

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

Nunn, Gregory

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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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

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Field, Franklin

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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Goldwater, Barry

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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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