Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Politics

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Morley, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

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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 speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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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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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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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.

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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

Paul Valery

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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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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Pell, Claiborne

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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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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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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 the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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 bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland,sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Dickens, Charles

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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.

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

Alfred E. Newman

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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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