Motivational Quotes

Politics

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Politics

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Will, George F.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Noonan, Peggy

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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

Dane, Frank

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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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

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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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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Russell, Dora

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Ambrose Bierce

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Berra, Yogi

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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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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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

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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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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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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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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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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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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Banfield, Edward C.

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.