Motivational Quotes

Politics

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

- Clarke, James Freeman

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Fischer, John

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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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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Plato

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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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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Rogers, Will

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Hearst, William Randolph

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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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It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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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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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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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