Motivational Quotes

Politics

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

- Eban, Abba

Best Quotes about Politics

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Nixon, Richard M.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butler

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

Hearst, William Randolph

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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

Goldwater, Barry

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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Armey, Dick

11.

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

Will Rogers

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Culbertson, Ely

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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 House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

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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

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Major, John

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Wilson, Harold

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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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.

34.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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.

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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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Anouilh, Jean

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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

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

Thatcher, Margaret