Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Mark B. Cohen

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Dane, Frank

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Mondale, Walter F.

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

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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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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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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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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 the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Platen

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Truman, Harry S

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lowman, Hariold

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Eban, Abba

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster