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

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Will, George F.

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

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Benn, Tony

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

Lincoln, Abraham

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

Bryce, James

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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Fredrich

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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Miller, Henry

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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 two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Herriot, Edouard

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Alfred E. Newman

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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

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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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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca

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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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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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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

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Jackson, Jesse