Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- 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

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Waugh, Auberon

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Rostand, Jean

A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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.

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

Cary, Joyce

10.

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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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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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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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

16.

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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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

19.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate VII

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

Dane, Frank

22.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John

27.

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

31.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Welles, Orson

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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 made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Huxley, Aldous

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Cooper, James F.

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

Fischer, John

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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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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Deighton, Len

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Politics is far more complicated than physics.