Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Politics

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

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.

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

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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

Noonan, Peggy

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

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.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Marx, Karl

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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

12.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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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

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Field, Franklin

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Jimmy Wales

19.

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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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

22.

I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Pope, Alexander

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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Lippmann, Walter

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

25.

The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

27.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

28.

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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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

30.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

32.

The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

33.

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

34.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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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

39.

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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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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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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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.