Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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.

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

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.

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

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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

Will, George F.

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

Rogers, Will

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Will, George F.

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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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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Churchill, Winston

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

Dane, Frank

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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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Politics is a blood sport.

Bevan, Aneurin

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

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

Pell, Claiborne

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

Arbuthnot, John

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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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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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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

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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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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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

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Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.