Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

- Dalton Camp

Best Quotes about Politics

Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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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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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Eban, Abba

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

Dane, Frank

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Taft, William Howard

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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Sampson, Anthony

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Pell, Claiborne

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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.

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A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

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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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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Noonan, Peggy

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Camus, Albert

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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

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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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You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.

Henley, Anthony

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

Charles De Gaulle

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Platen

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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 in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Bagehot, Walter

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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