Motivational Quotes

Politics

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.

Best Quotes about Politics

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Taft, William Howard

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.

Hijazi, Muhammad

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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

Field, Franklin

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Will, George F.

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

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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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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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Jackson, Jesse

30.

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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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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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 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 history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Bradlee, Ben C.

38.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Roche, John P.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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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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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Burke, Edmund

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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Albert Einstein