Motivational Quotes

Politics

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Hearst, William Randolph

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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

Roche, John P.

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

Arbuthnot, John

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

Kocher, Gerhard

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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 end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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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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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.

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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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When the political columnists say'Every thinking man'they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to'Every intelligent voter'they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Franklin P. Adams

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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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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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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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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

Kennedy Jr., John F.

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

Rogers, Will

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold