Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

- Dixon, Alan

Best Quotes about Politics

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

Albert Einstein

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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

Rinehart, Dana Gillman

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

Nixon, Richard M.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

10.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Richardson, Elliot

11.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Brogan, Denis E.

13.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold

14.

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

15.

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

16.

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

Welles, Orson

17.

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

18.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Peter, Laurence J.

19.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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

23.

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

26.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

27.

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

Hijazi, Muhammad

28.

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

Gorbachev, Mikhail

29.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Halifax, Edward F.

31.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

32.

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Certeau, Michel De

33.

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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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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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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

Hearst, William Randolph

37.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Field, Franklin

40.

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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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

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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Colby, Frank Moore

45.

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

Barres

46.

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

47.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Einstein, Albert

48.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

49.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

50.

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