Motivational Quotes

Politics

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

- Clough, Arthur Hugh

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Herriot, Edouard

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Dane, Frank

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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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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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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

Roche, John P.

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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Platen

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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

Seneca

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Ameringer, Oscar

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

Pell, Claiborne

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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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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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Alfred E. Newman